title: Successful treatment of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma of the rectum with radiation therapy: report of a case.
abstract: We report a case of Stage IE mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma arising in the rectum, which was successfully treated with radiotherapy. A 60-year-old man had several months of altered bowel habit with rectal bleeding and was found to have a large rectal tumor with no evidence of distant spread. Histologic studies showed this to be a mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. The patient received 45 Gy in 25 fractions with external beam radiotherapy during 5 weeks. The treatment was well tolerated and review at 41 months revealed no evidence of recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Division of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St. Andrew's Place, East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002, Australia. marcusfoo@excite.com
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Foo
authors.forename: Michael W T
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guiney
authors.forename: Rodney
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D019583:Dose Fractionation, Radiation; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*