TME is widely accepted as a treatment for stage III and IV rectal cancer, but it comes at the cost of urogenital and anorectal dysfunction, permanent fistulas, and poor quality of life. Local excision ...

Patterns of recurrence in rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and TME. Background: Neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiation (CCRT) followed by radical surgery is standard in patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At year 10, overall survival was 90.2% in the Mohs micrographic surgery group vs. 88.3% in the wide local ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mohs micrographic surgery was superior to wide local excision as measured by local recurrence rates in a cohort ...

Risk Group Assessment and Clinical Outcome Algorithm to Predict the Natural History of Patients With Surgically Resected Renal Cell Carcinoma PURPOSE: To evaluate the outcome and toxicity of a ...

PHOENIX — Mohs surgery appears to be superior to wide local excision (WLE) in patients with high-stage cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), according to findings from a retrospective study. The ...

Mohs micrographic surgery may offer a survival advantage over wide local excision for select patients with early-stage Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a retrospective cohort study suggested. Over a mean ...

Radical resection of T1 rectal adenocarcinoma carries a significant risk of morbidity and bowel-function complications. Local resection (transanal excision) has low morbidity and preserves bowel ...

The evidence on which this guidance was based is derived from treatment of breast cancer in women. Treatment depends on pathology, stage and grade. Surgery is usually the first option and may involve ...

If you have stitches, check with your doctor about when you can do your normal activities. If you have a skin graft, avoid exercise that stretches the skin graft for at least 3 weeks after surgery, ...