%0 Journal Article
%T Overstaging: A Challenge in Rectal Cancer Treatment
%A Doris Henne-Bruns
%A Jan Scheele
%A Marko Kornmann
%A Sandra Tenzer
%A Stefan Andreas Schmidt
%J Archive of "Visceral Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.1159/000488652
%X Preoperative staging, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), is decisive to envisage the therapeutic concept for rectal cancer (RC). Overstaging may subject the patient to neoadjuvant therapy that does not improve survival but may lead to therapy-associated morbidity
%K Rectal cancer
%K Staging
%K Endoscopic ultrasound
%K EUS
%K Computed tomography
%K CT
%K Magnetic resonance imaging
%K MRI
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189530/