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Do your post-operative rectal fields differ from pre-operative fields?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

You must wire and include the perineal scar. This is counterintuitive because APR is a "big surgery". But there can be surgical marginal miss and recurrences there. Often, the inguinal nodes will be at risk if the tumor was below the dentate line. Be especially careful to exclude small bowel as much...

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