Modern Surgical Oncology Shifts in Colorectal Cancer Practice

Laparoscopy may reduce the degree of pain or length of hospital stay compared with open surgery for patients with colorectal cancer.

Increasing screening for younger individuals who are at risk of colorectal cancer may help mitigate the rising early incidence of this disease.

Administering neoadjuvant therapy to patients with colorectal cancer may help surgical oncologists attain a negative-margin resection.

Immunotherapy may be an “elegant” method of managing colorectal cancer, says Gregory Charak, MD.

Gregory Charak, MD, discusses how modalities like laparoscopic surgery and neoadjuvant immunotherapy may benefit patients with colorectal cancer.