Open AccessOverstaging: A Challenge in Rectal Cancer Treatment
Author(s) -
J. Scheele,
Stefan A. Schmidt,
Sandra Tenzer,
Doris HenneBruns,
Marko Kornmann
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000488652
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , magnetic resonance imaging , endoscopic ultrasound , neoadjuvant therapy , stage (stratigraphy) , nuclear medicine , radiology , cancer , breast cancer , paleontology , biology
Preoperative staging, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), is decisive to envisage the therapeutic concept for rectal cancer (RC). Overstaging may subject the patient to neoadjuvant therapy that does not improve survival but may lead to therapy-associated morbidity.