Elective and emergency surgery for colon and rectal cancer

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Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party. Guidelines:Colorectal cancer/Elective and emergency surgery for CRC . 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=173080, cited 2023 Jun 1]. Available from: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australia/Guidelines:Colorectal_cancer.

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Chapter subsections

Please see subsections:

• Optimal approach to elective resection for colon cancers (COL1-2a)
• Optimal approach to elective resection for rectal cancers

• Optimal approach to elective resection for rectal cancers (COL1-2b)
• Local versus radical resection for T1-T2 rectal tumours (REC3)

• Emergency management of malignant large bowel obstruction (COLMNG5)
• Peritonectomy with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy(COLMNG3)

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