Colorectal cancer
By: José G. Guillem, Elin R. Sigurdson, guest editors.
Contributors: Guillem, José G.; Sigurdson, Elin R.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 82, no. 5
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1114
Subjects: Colorectal Neoplasms.; Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer
Notes: "October 2002."

Series title from spine: Surgical clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Pathogenesis of colorectal cancer / Jeremy R. Jass; value: Epidemiology and prevention of colorectal cancer / Ernest T. Hawk, Paul J. Limburg, and Jaye L. Viner; value: Colorectal cancer screening / Brad Trowbridge and Randall W. Burt; value: Surgical management of malignant colorectal polyps / Santhat Nivatvongs; value: Local therapy for rectal cancer / Harvey G. Moore and José G. Guillem; value: Rectal cancer: the sphincter-sparing approach / David M. Ota, Lisa Jacobs, and Boris Kuvshinoff; value: The role of total mesorectal excision in the management of rectal cancer / E. Kapiteijn and C.J.H. van de Velde; value: Autonomic nerve preserving total mesorectal excision / Klaas Havenga and Warren E. Enker; value: The role of laparoscopy in the multimodality treatment of colorectal cancer / J.E. Hartley and J.R.T. Monson; value: Adjuvant therapy of cancers of the colon and rectum / Leonard B. Saltz and Bruce Minsky; value: Multimodality management of locally recurrent colorectal cancer / Wayne S. Kendal ... [et al.]; value: Colorectal metastasis (liver and lung) / Christophe Penna and Bernard Nordlinger; value: The preoperative assessment and postoperative surveillance of patients with colon and rectal cancer / Walter E. Longo and Frank E. Johnson.