Rectal Cancer

1. Clinical Staging: Endoscopic Techniques
Hueylan Chern, W. Douglas Wong

2. Clinical Staging: CT and MRI
Gina Brown, Shwetal Dighe, Fiona Taylor

3. Local Excision
Y. Nancy You, Heidi Nelson

4. Total Mesorectal Excision and Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection
Miranda Kusters, Yoshihiro Moriya, Harm J. T. Rutten, Cornelis J. H. Velde

5. Abdominoperineal Resection, Low Anterior Resection, and Beyond
Kirk Ludwig, Lauren Kosinski, Timothy Ridolfi

6. T4 and Recurrent Rectal Cancer
Jason Park, Jose Guillem

7. Surgical Management of Pulmonary Metastases
Loretta Erhunmwunsee, Thomas A. D’Amico

8. Surgical and Ablative Management of Liver Metastases
Srinevas K. Reddy, Bryan M. Clary

9. Surgical Pathology
Nicholas P. West, Philip Quirke

10. Chemotherapy: Concurrent Delivery with Radiation Therapy
Jean-François Bosset, Christophe Borg, Philippe Maingon, Gilles Crehange, Stéphanie Servagi-Vernat, Mathieu Bosset

11. Chemotherapy: Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Approaches
Rachel Wong, David Cunningham, Ian Chua

12. Chemotherapy: Metastatic Disease
Kathryn M. Field, John R. Zalcberg

13. Radiation Therapy: Adjuvant vs. Neoadjuvant Therapy
Rolf Sauer, Claus Rödel

14. Radiation Therapy: Short Versus Long Course
Krzysztof Bujko, Magdalena Bujko

15. Chemoradiation Therapy: Nonoperative Approaches
Angelita Habr-Gama, Rodrigo Perez, Igor Proscurshim, Joaquim Gama-Rodrigues

16. Contact X-Ray Therapy
Jean-Pierre Gérard, Robert Myerson, A. Sun Myint

17. High-Dose-Rate Preoperative Endorectal Brachytherapy for Patients with Rectal Cancer
Té Vuong, Slobodan Devic, Ervin Podgorsak

18. Radiation Therapy: Technical Innovations
Brian G. Czito, Christopher G. Willett

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Colorectal Surgery, Radiotherapy