Register
Community
Overview
Experts
Editors
Fellows
Code of conduct
AI Guidelines for Physicians
Company
About Us
FAQs
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Careers
Programs
News
News Releases
Press Coverage
Publications
Blog
Contact Us
Sign in
Please select the option that best describes you:
Topics:
Radiation Oncology
•
Gastrointestinal Cancers
•
General Internal Medicine
When is it appropriate to recommend a diverting colostomy for treatment of anal cancer or low lying rectal cancer?
Fecal incontinence can be one indication. What are others?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
If there is bowel obstruction/ near obstruction, recto-vaginal or rectovesical fistula formation.
Sign in or Register to read more
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I would add inability to pass a colonoscope all the way to the cecum.
Sign in or Register to read more
2701
2705
Related Questions
Would you change treatment approach for rectal cancer with an associated intussusception?
How would you plan a post-op, distal rectal adenocarcinoma s/p neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and APR with minimal treatment response?
Which patients, if any, treated according to PROSPECT for an early stage rectal cancer, would you offer surveillance if they achieved cCR after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
How do you manage persistent rectal bleeding in the setting of rectal adenocarcinoma in a treatment-naive patient?
How do you approach rising PSA following radical prostatectomy and early salvage radiation therapy?
How do you manage oxaliplatin-induced splenomegaly?
In a patient with gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy who had a good response but is unable to undergo surgery, how would you approach radiation therapy?
Would you recommend radiation or chemoradiation in a patient with cholangiocarcinoma s/p surgery and adjuvant treatment with single hepatic metastasis 3 years later?
Would you dose escalate neoadjuvant radiotherapy for T3 and/or N+ rectal cancer in patients who are unwilling or unable to get chemotherapy?
Would you recommend adjuvant radiotherapy in addition to chemotherapy in gastric adenocarcinoma s/p gastrectomy with a distal positive resection margin?