title: Surgical treatment of rectal cancer.
abstract: Rectal cancer should no longer be thought of as only a surgically treated disease. Centers that treat large numbers of rectal cancer patients should provide state of the art radiotherapy and chemotherapy as well as offer anatomic tumor-specific operations for advanced-stage cancers and local treatment options for favorable, early lesions.
authors.affiliation: Section of Colorectal Surgery, Washington University and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA. fleshmanj@msnotes.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Sonia L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Ramamoorthy
authors.forename: James W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Fleshman
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012007:Rectum / Q000473:pathology