[Tumor surgery and quality of life--reconstructive rectal surgery].
Numerous innovations in recent years have allowed a variable therapeutic approach for rectal cancer with a concomitant drastic reduction in extirpations. This development was paralleled by an increasing research into postoperative quality of life in colorectal cancer. This showed that a very ambitious preservation of the sphincter does not automatically lead to good quality of life. On the other hand is the expectation of healing a generally important factor in a good quality of life. Whether routine evaluation of quality of life data does in fact improve medical care is an open question.
Kasperk
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Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse 30, 52074 Aachen.
Schumpelick
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D011125:Adenomatous Polyposis Coli / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D016737:Proctocolectomy, Restorative; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate