Surgical treatment of rectal cancer
Aminev, A.M.
Voprosy Onkologii 24(4): 17-18
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 654167 Document Number: 125788
The author presents on analysis of the treatment of pathological patients, admitted to the Chair of Hospital Surgery of Kuibyshev Medical Institute named after D. I. Uljyanov, for a 32-year period. A total number of patients-21.590, 1.702 of them were treated for rectal cancer, and 1.250 fo these (73.4) were radically operated upon. Three basic types of radical surgery performed by the author are described, as well as the method of the postoperative management of the patients (chemotherapy, etc). A survival over 5 years was noted 46.5% and over 10 years in 18.1% of radically operated patients.