Medical history treatment of anal cancer

Radiation doses delivered for treatment of anal cancer from to to convert to grays, multiply by 0. Percentage of patients treated by each primary modality for each decade from through ChemoXRT indicates concurrent chemoradiation; XRT only, irradiation only; and sequential, chemotherapy followed by irradiation followed by radical surgery. Crude colostomy-free survival after treatment for anal cancer by decade from through Arch Surg. Hypothesis The adaptation of new techniques in treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal during the past 3 decades has improved clinical outcomes.

Anal cancer is a cancer that affects the tissues of the anus. Most anal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas SCC. Squamous cells are a type of cell that line the surface of the anal canal. Some anal cancers are adenocarcinomas of the anus, a cancer of the cells that make the mucus that helps the stools faeces move smoothly out of the anus. In rarer cases, some SCCs affect the skin outside the anus perianal skin cancers. Anal cancer is a rare cancer with around cases estimated to be diagnosed in Australia in

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