Journal of Surgery

Viorel Scripcariu

Publications

• Review Article
  Therapeutic Management of Colon Cancer
  Author(s): Ana-Maria Todosi, Mihaela Mădălina Gavrilescu and Viorel ScripcariuAna-Maria Todosi, Mihaela Mădălina Gavrilescu and Viorel Scripcariu
  
  Colorectal cancer is a major public health problem worldwide, and a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Correct pretherapeutic staging has the role of guiding the management of colon cancer patients. The diagnosis is guided by the clinical symptoms. Chemotherapy is an important part of colon cancer treatment. Chemotherapy regimens are adapted to tumor stage and patient status and have various side effects and variable survival outcomes. International guidelines recommend different treatments depending on the presence or absence of metastases. The primary goal of treatment in nonmetastatic colon cancer is surgical removal of the tumor which could be the first step of the complex therapy or preceded by neoadjuvant therapy, depending on pretherapeutic staging. In resectable nonmetastatic tumors the preferred surgical procedure is colectomy with en bloc removal of regional lymph nodes.. Read More»
  

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