Open AccessRadio (chemo) therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer
Author(s) -
Ljiljana Radošević-Jelić
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
acta chirurgica iugoslavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0887
pISSN - 0354-950X
DOI - 10.2298/aci0202033r
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , brachytherapy , operability , colorectal cancer , radiology , cancer , engineering , reliability engineering
Radiotherapy has an role in combined treatment to lower local recurrence in resectable rectal cancer. Radiotherapy also has an established role in nonresectable rectal cancers to increase the operability, but radiochemotherapy is more efficient. Radiotherapy can be administered as a transcutaneous therapy on the megavoltage machines as well as brachytherapy and combined--transcutaneous and brachytherapy.