Multidisciplinary Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: Staging – Treatment – Pathology – Palliation

Description:

This book is a comprehensive reference work on the multidisciplinary team (MDT) management of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients that will meet the needs of all members of CRC MDTs and those training in the field. Important, up-to-date knowledge is provided on organization of MDTs, early intervention, surgery, oncology, imaging, pathology, and palliation, with special focus on controversies. This second edition has been thoroughly revised. It includes an entirely new section on the principles of treatment of significant polyps and early cancers and a total of 14 new chapters, including one on the early integration of palliative care. Every effort has been made to ensure that each specialty-specific chapter will be approachable for all team members, thereby facilitating an effective interdisciplinary approach to teamwork. The authors are leading European doctors and scientists who have influenced the development of the MDT concept as well as other aspects of individualized treatment of CRC patients.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Multidisciplinary Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

1. Organizing the Multidisciplinary Team

2. Multidisciplinary Treatment: Influence on Outcomes

3. Decisions in the Multidisciplinary Team: Influence of Disease-, Treatment- and Patient-Related Factors

4. Meeting the Challenge of Increased Specialisation

Part II. Early Intervention

5. Early Intervention for Colorectal Cancer: Introduction

6. Significant Polyp and Early Colorectal Cancer (SPECC): A National Development Program

7. Management of Rectal Neoplasia

8. Local Excision of Rectal Cancer After Neoadjuvant Treatment

Part III. Surgery

9. Introduction to Surgery

10. Surgical Research

11. Surgical Anatomy of the Rectum and the TME Specimen (Total Mesorectal Excision)

12. Major Resections in Rectal Cancer

13. Locally Advanced and Recurrent Cancer

14. Reconstructions After Neoadjuvant and Abdominoperineal Resection

15. Low Anterior Resection Syndrome

16. Surgical Anatomy of the Colon and Complete Mesocolic Excision

Part IV. Oncology

17. Introduction to Oncology

18. Multidisciplinary Treatment of Rectal Cancer

19. Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Colorectal Cancer

20. Immunotherapy in Patients with mCRC

21. Chemotherapy and Targeted Drugs for Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

22. Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced T3/T4 Rectal Cancer: What Should We Do with Complete Responders?

Part V. Imaging and Staging

23. Introduction: Preoperative Staging by Imaging

24. Cross-Sectional Imaging for Local Staging of Rectal Cancer

25. Dual-Energy CT

26. Evaluation of Tumour Response After Radiotherapy in Rectal Cancer

Part VI. Pathology

27. Introduction to the Pathology of Colorectal Cancer

28. Early Colorectal Cancer

29. Quality of Surgery

30. Staging of Colorectal Cancer (Including Staging After Neoadjuvant Therapy)

31. Molecular Pathology in Colorectal Cancer: Current Practice and Future Directions

Part VII. The Palliative Team

32. Multidisciplinary Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: The Palliative Care Team: Introduction

33. Surgical Treatment in Palliative Care