Imaging a patient with a diagnosis of colon/rectal adenocarcinoma

Author(s):

• Dr Kirsten Gormly — Author
• Dr Elizabeth Murphy MBBS, PhD, FRACS — Author
• Dr Wendy Brown — Co-author
• Professor Timothy Price MBBS, DHlthSc (Medicine), FRACP — Co-author
• A/Prof Eva Segelov — Co-author
• Dr Damien Stella — Co-author
• Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party — Co-author

Cite this page

Gormly, K, Dr Elizabeth Murphy MBBS, PhD, FRACS, Dr Wendy Brown, Professor Timothy Price MBBS, DHlthSc (Medicine), FRACP, A/Prof Eva Segelov, Dr Damien Stella, Cancer Council Australia Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Working Party. Guidelines:Colorectal cancer/Imaging 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=173060, cited 2023 Jun 1]. Available from: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/australia/Guidelines:Colorectal_cancer.

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7 November 2017 23:33:53

Chapter subsections

Please see sections:

• Colon cancer
• Rectal cancer
• Addenda: rectal MRI cancer report

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

Using scans, including nuclear medicine, to create images of the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention.