How would you manage a patient who presented with synchronous squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (cT2N0) and adenocarcinoma of the rectum (cT3N0) at 7cm from the anal verge?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

There is clearly no "correct" answer to questions such as these. However, a reasonable approach would be to treat as one would treat an anal cancer with pelvic RT with 5-FU and mitomycin C and then follow with a low anterior resection for the rectal cancer. If this were a small T2 cancer...

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