What To Do With Lateral Nodal Disease in Low Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer? A Call for Further Reflection and Research

Abstract

Chemoradiotherapy with total mesorectal excision might not be sufficient in a selected group of patients. Further research is needed about which pretreatment features of the lateral nodes predict local recurrence and what is needed to prevent these from developing. See Video Abstract at http://links.lww.com/DCR/A338.