Insufficient treatment and overtreatment in the management of colorectal cancer greatly influence patients' outcome. The clinicopathological stage of carcinoma located in colon and rectum is different for anatomical differences. The indication of adjuvant chemotherapy varies in colon or rectal cancer. Locally advanced rectal cancer should receive neoadjuvant treatment, however, the optimal regimen is still controversial.
Colorectal Neoplasms ; therapy ; Humans ; Neoadjuvant Therapy

Humans ; Lymph Node Excision ; Neoplasm Staging ; Rectal Neoplasms ; pathology ; surgery

Colorectal Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Humans ; Neoplasm Staging ; Preoperative Care

Humans ; Rectal Neoplasms ; therapy

Gastrointestinal cancers include gastric cancer, small intestinal cancer and colorectal cancer. In China, the majority of hospitals at central cities even at county hospitals are providing surgical intervention for patients with gastrointestinal cancer. However, the complications after gastrointestinal cancer surgery pose significant burden to the patients and their relatives because of increased hospital cost and law suit. Acute bleeding, obstruction, anastomotic leakage are major complications after gastrointestinal surgery. Therefore it is important to deal with complications after gastrointestinal surgery.
Digestive System Surgical Procedures ; adverse effects ; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms ; surgery ; Humans ; Postoperative Complications ; prevention & control ; therapy

Surgeon is sacred career. To cure patients by surgery is the surgeon's work, while the social responsibility is the surgeon's soul. To strengthen and promote the social responsibility is a demand of our age; thus, every surgeon should adhere to the supremacy of the patients' interests in clinical practice.
General Surgery ; Humans ; Physicians ; Social Responsibility

Currently,specialized treatment for diseases is increasingly becoming the mainstream in clinical practice.Gastrointestinal surgery,as an important branch of general surgery,has increasingly developed specialized; however,our present gastrointestinal surgeon training system is not yet perfect.The article summarized the problems and challenges in gastrointestinal surgeon training in China based on the situations at home and abroad,and addressed some available gastrointestinal surgeon training protocols in future.We hope this article can be helpful on our country's gastrointestinal surgeon professional training.

With the development of national economics,colorectal cancer is a life-threatening malignancy and its incidence is increasing.In recent years,based on improvements of treatment concepts,medicine and surgical techniques,the treatment mode of colorectal cancer has turned from simple surgical resection to muhidisciplinary comprehensive treatment focused on surgery and combined chemoradiotherapy with targeted medicine.At present,there is a big gap in treatment of colorectal cancer between China and advanced world levels,and the differences of medical level exist in different domestic areas.Promotion of diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer and improvement of efficacy on colorectal cancer are imperative.

Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in China, with an increasing incidence these years. Currently, the combined therapy based on radical surgery has dramatically improved the survival rate and life quality of patients, however, a large percentage of patients still died of recurrence and metastasis. In recent years, the treatment strategies for the recurrence of colon cancer have been greatly advanced, especially the new targeted drugs and chemotherapeutic drugs, which lead to a significantly improved therapeutic efficacy and a better life quality. Therefore, how to choose and use these new treatments synthetically and reasonably become a great challenge to all surgeons, especially to digestive surgeons.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world, and rectal cancer accounts for a large percentage of this disease in Chinese patients. Surgical extirpation is the mainstay of therapy, Intraluminal ultrasound is highly accurate in detecting depth of invasion and lymph node metastasis, and is also helpful in preoperative staging of rectal cancer. Preoperative adjuvant therapy could down-stage tumors, improve the radical resection rates of advanced lower rectal cancer, increase the rate of sphincter-saving surgery, and decrease the local recurrence rate. Total mesorectal excision could signifi-candy decrease the local metastasis of rectal cancer, and rectal cancer resection with preservation of pelvic autonomic nerve is effective in preventing urinary or reproductive dysfunction. Recently, minimally invasive surgery has been introduced for the management of rectal cancer, and transanal endoscopic microsurgery is a new method with advantages in rectal cancer treatment.