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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • Surgical Oncology • NCI-CCC Tumor Board Question • University of Wisconsin
In patients with inflammatory bowel disease with low rectal cancer with planned proctocolectomy, would you consider creation of a pouch?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
This is a very difficult case- are you speaking of Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's disease? If UC - can consider pouch but really depends on the stage of the primary rectal cancer. If neoadjuvant chemoradiation is given, the likelihood of an ileoanal J-pouch functioning appropriately is low. Gen...
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