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In a patient with prior RT to the prostate and SVs and newly diagnosed, locally advanced rectal cancer at 10-15 cm, would you offer preoperative chemoradiation?
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Radiation Oncology · Henry Ford Health System
"Locally advanced" rectal cancer was traditionally described as T3/4N0M0 or TxN+M0 cancer, but we have advanced much farther on the characterization of this now.
We also know that the local control of patients undergoing resection for high rectal cancer (10-15 cm from the anal verge) is much better t...