Colorectal 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 clinical knowledge.

With leading international surgeons, gastroenterologists and oncologists combining to offer their considerable wealth of expertise and knowledge, Colorectal Cancer is a well-balanced, indispensable resource for all those involved in colorectal cancer management.
Table of Contents
1 Epidemiology
Mala Pande and Marsha L. Frazier

Diagnosis

2 Screening for colorectal cancer
Robert JC Steele and Paula MacDonald

3 Management of Adenomas
Sunil Dolwani, Rajvinder Singh, Noriya Uedo and Krish Ragunath

Histopathology

4 How Histopathology Affects the Management of the Multidisciplinary Team
Dipen Maru

Surgical

5 Radical colonic resection
Kenichi Sugihara, Yusuke Kinugasa, Shunsuke Tsukamoto

6 Extralevator Abdominoperineal Excision (ELAPE) for Advanced Low Rectal Cancer Brendan J. Moran and Timothy J. Moore

7 Neoadjuvant therapy without surgery for early stage rectal cancer?
Thomas D Pinkney, Simon P Bach

8 Minimally Invasive Surgery for Rectal Cancer and Robotics
David Jayne & Gregory Taylor

9 Surgery for Anal cancer
John H. Scholefield

Oncology

10 Controversies in adjuvant chemotherapy
Stephen Staal, Carmen Allegra

11 Long versus Short Course Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer
Manisha Palta, Christopher Willett & Brian Czito

12 More treatment is not necessarily better limited options for chemotherapeutic radiosensitization
Daedong Kim

13 Controversies in advanced disease surgical approaches for metastatic resection
Amanda B. Cooper, Thomas A. Aloia, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Steven A. Curley

14 Controversies in Chemotherapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
Ludmila Katherine Martin and Tanios Bekaii-Saab

Outcomes

15 What is the role of surveillance for colorectal cancer?
Daedong Kim

Vignettes

16 The Young Patient with Colorectal Cancer Genetic Counseling Discussion
Sarah A. Bannon, Maureen E. Mork and Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas

17 Best practices of supportive care while receiving chemotherapy: anti-emetics, diarrhea, anorexia, dermatologic recommendations
Maura Polansky

18 Palliative Care Vignettes
Jenny Wei and Egidio Del Fabbro

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