Rectal Cancer (Therapy)

Analysis Shows Benefits of Adjuvant Therapy

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 19th, 1996

A quality-of-life analysis in patients with advanced but operable rectal cancer showed that adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation provides longer survival and more overall time free from disease symptoms or toxic effects of treatment than radiation therapy alone.

Dr. Richard D. Gelber, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, is the lead author of the report, which appeared in the August 7, 1996, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (J Natl Cancer Inst 1996;88:1039-1045). Gelber explained that combined radiation and chemotherapy after surgery, compared with postsurgical radiation alone, has been shown to improve disease-free survival and...

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