History of surgery. Rectal surgery
NewsAt the beginning of the XX century, rectal cancer was considered a sentence.
- The main method then was the Miles operation, which was first performed in 1921, in which the entire rectum was removed along with the anal canal, and a permanent stoma was formed for the patient.
This not only reduced the quality of life. Overall, the prognosis was unfavorable.
The turning point occurred in 1948, when the British surgeon Clifford Dukes described and performed an operation in which the tumor was removed, but the anal sphincter was preserved.
It was an anterior rectal resection.
- It was also he who first proposed the classification of the stages of colon cancer.
Why did it become a revolution?
- There is no need for a stoma, which of course improved the quality of life.
- Doctors have the opportunity to combine surgery with pre- and postoperative radiation therapy for the best treatment result.
Since then, the technique has been constantly improved, minimally invasive methods (laparoscopic and robot-assisted operations) have appeared in surgery.
Today, anterior resection is one of the gold standards for the treatment of rectal cancer with the ability to preserve the sphincter in more than 70-80% of patients.
- In the Department of Coloproctology MCSC named after A.S. Loginov, about 1000 colorectal cancer surgeries are performed annually, of which more than 250 are performed on the rectum. At the same time, the proportion of sphincter-preserving interventions reaches 94%.
If you are worried about unpleasant symptoms, we recommend that you contact specialists right away.
- Our phone number is +7 (495) 304-30-39.
- Receiving calls from 8:00 to 20:00 on weekdays and from 9:00 to 16:00 on weekends.
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