Adjuvant therapy for rectal cancer

Author(s):

• Dr Kathryn Field — Author
• Professor Desmond Yip MB BS FRACP — Author
• Prof Les Bokey — Co-author
• Dr Kirsten Gormly — Co-author
• Professor Alexander Heriot MA MD MBA FRACS FRCS (Gen.) FRCSEd GAICD — Co-author
• A/Prof George Hruby — Co-author
• Prof Ian Jones — Co-author
• Associate Professor Christos Karapetis — Co-author
• Dr Elizabeth Murphy MBBS, PhD, FRACS — Co-author
• Associate Professor Sam Ngan, MBBS, FRCSE, FRANZCR — Co-author
• Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party — Co-author

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Dr Kathryn Field, Professor Desmond Yip MB BS FRACP, Prof Les Bokey, Gormly, K, Professor Alexander Heriot MA MD MBA FRACS FRCS (Gen.) FRCSEd GAICD, A/Prof George Hruby, Prof Ian Jones, Karapetis, CS, Dr Elizabeth Murphy MBBS, PhD, FRACS, Ngan, S, Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party. Guidelines:Colorectal cancer/Adjuvant therapy for rectal cancer . In: Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer. Sydney: Cancer Council Australia. [Version URL: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australiawiki/index.php?oldid=173100, cited 2023 Jun 1]. Available from: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australia/Guidelines:Colorectal_cancer.

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7 November 2017 23:40:50

Chapter subsections

See sections:

• Postoperative chemotherapy

• Postoperative radiation treatment|

Referring to the large bowel, comprising the colon and rectum.

A treatment given with or shortly after another treatment to make it more effective. This usually refers to surgery followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy.