title: Cancer trends: surgical adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer.
abstract: Adequate surgical resection is the most effective primary treatment of potentially curable cancer of the colon and rectum. Radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy are being evaluated in clinical trials to see if they should be recommended for adjuvant therapy.
mesh_terms: D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*