“The management of locally advanced #RectalCancer has grown in both complexity and quality since the first proctectomy.
What once was a malignancy with a fairly consistent treatment algorithm for decades, a recent paradigm shift in the care of these patients has led to a more personalized, multidisciplinary approach with variations in timing, sequence, duration, and potential exclusion of multimodality therapies.”
Dr. Noam VanderWalde, one of our Radiation Oncologists, collaborated in the publication of this review to summarize the most important evidence behind these developing concepts to provide context for this paradigm shift.