Description
Book SynopsisColorectal Cancer: Diagnosis and Clinical Management provides colorectal surgeons, gastroenterologists and oncologists with an authoritative, practical guide to best practice in the diagnosis and clinical management of colorectal cancer.
Covering all forms of treatment including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, it examines the various new and emerging therapies, new strategies for screening and prevention, as well as the latest guidance on the most challenging and controversial aspects of managing colorectal cancer.
The authors present important information on:
- Controversies in adjuvant chemotherapy
- Long versus short course radiotherapy
- Minimally invasive surgery and robotics
- Radical colonic resection
Each chapter contains key points, tips and tricks and clinical case studies to aid rapid browsing and knowledge of the basic principles, while self-assessment questions allow readers to test their clinica
Table of Contents
Contributors, vii
Part 1 Diagnosis
1 Epidemiology, 3
Mala Pande & Marsha L. Frazier
2 Screening for colorectal cancer, 27
Robert JC Steele & Paula MacDonald
3 Management of adenomas, 51
Sunil Dolwani, Rajvinder Singh, Noriya Uedo & Krish Ragunath
Part 2 Histopathology
4 How histopathology affects the management of the multidisciplinary team, 69
Dipen Maru
Part 3 Surgical
5 Radical colonic resection, 87
Kenichi Sugihara, Yusuke Kinugasa & Shunsuke Tsukamoto
6 ExtraLevator AbdominoPerineal Excision (ELAPE) for advanced low rectal cancer, 104
Brendan J. Moran & Timothy J. Moore
7 Neoadjuvant therapy without surgery for early stage rectal cancer?, 126
Thomas D. Pinkney & Simon P. Bach
8 Minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer and robotics, 150
David Jayne & Gregory Taylor
9 Surgery for anal cancer, 163
John H. Scholefield
Part 4 Oncology
10 Controversies in adjuvant chemotherapy, 179
Stephen Staal, Karen Daily & Carmen Allegra
11 Long- versus short-course radiotherapy for rectal cancer, 200
Manisha Palta, Christopher G. Willett & Brian G. Czito
12 More treatment is not necessarily better – limited options for chemotherapeutic radiosensitization, 218
Daedong Kim
13 Controversies in advanced disease – surgical approaches for metastatic resection, 227
Amanda B. Cooper, Thomas A. Aloia, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey & Steven A. Curley
14 Controversies in chemotherapy in advanced colorectal cancer, 243
Ludmila Katherine Martin & Tanios Bekaii-Saab
Part 5 Outcomes
15 What is the role of surveillance for colorectal cancer?, 263
Daedong Kim
Part 6 Vignettes
16 The young patient with colorectal cancer – genetic counseling discussion, 275
Sarah Bannon, Maureen E. Mork & Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas
17 Best practices of supportive care while receiving chemotherapy, 286
Maura Polansky
18 Palliative care vignettes, 292
Jenny Wei & Egidio Del Fabbro
Index, 299
