Essential updates 2020/2021: Advancing precision medicine for comprehensive rectal cancer treatment

Abstract

Abstract In the paradigm shift related to rectal cancer treatment, we have to understand a variety of new emerging topics to provide appropriate treatment for individual patients as precision medicine. However, information on surgery, genomic medicine, and pharmacotherapy is highly specialized and subdivided, creating a barrier to achieving thorough knowledge. In this review, we summarize the perspective for rectal cancer treatment and management from the current standard‐of‐care to the latest findings to help optimize treatment strategy.

Keywords

• diagnosis
• multimodal therapy
• rectal cancer
• stratification
• surgery