Clinical experiences at St. Mark's Hospital with multiple synchronous cancers of the colon and rectum

Abstract

With single cancers, and the prognosis appears to be surprisingly favorable, even when the second growth is comparatively advanced. The second lesion, however, is usually not palpable at operation, and full clinical and radiologic investigation is therefore essential before any resection is undertaken for cancer of the colon or rectum. Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Detroit, Michigan, June 10 to 14, 1973. © Williams & Wilkins 1975. All Rights Reserved....