About our extended colorectal operations

Introduction: Colorectal tumors can be treated with a good cure rate compared to other gastrointestinal tumors. Besides surgery, the advance of the pharmacological therapy opens further perspectives in the treatment. As a general rule, in cases of T4 tumours neoadjuvant therapy should be considered. There are special situations though, when in spite of the locally advanced tumour extended surgical therapy is the treatment of choice. These are for example: If no further oncological therapy possible because of previous therapy If the oncological therapy is not feasible or not sensible If the attempted therapy has…