Atsushi Ikeda

Recently, nonoperative management (NOM) for rectal cancer has demonstrated promise as a viable treatment strategy that allows a subset of patients to safely avoid rectal resection…

BACKGROUND: Although paraaortic lymph node (PALN) metastasis of colorectal cancer is beyond regional disease, previous studies suggested surgical dissection of PALN may serve as a curative therapeutic approach in patients with limited disease burden…