Israeli hospital develops new treatment for rectal cancer, effectively eliminating the cancer in nearly two-thirds of patients and removing need for surgery in most others.
The Davidoff Comprehensive Cancer Center, Israel’s only cancer hospital, recently conducted a study showing that a new treatment developed by the center’s researchers helped to eliminate rectal cancer in 65 percent of patients and prevented the need for surgery in most of them.
Rectal cancer makes up about 25 percent of colon cancer cases and is usually discovered when it is in a locally advanced state therefore requiring multidisciplinary treatment.
In a case of rectal cancer which has not metastasized, the treatment usually includes surgery.