TY - CHAP AU - Pramateftakis Manousos-Georgios AU - Papadopoulos Vasileios AU - Michalopoulos Antonios AU - Spanos Konstantinos AU - Tepetes Konstantinos AU - Tsoulfas Georgios ED - Ravinder Mohan Y1 - 2012-01-27 PY - 2012 T1 - Rectal Cancer - Staging and Surgical Approach N2 - Cancer is now the most common cause of death in the world. However, because of early diagnosis, better treatment, and advanced life expectancy, many cancer patients frequently live a long, happy, and healthy life after the diagnosis- and often live as long as patients who eventually do not die because of cancer. This book presents newer advances in diagnosis and treatment of specific cancers, an evidence-based and realistic approach to the selection of cancer treatment, and cutting-edge laboratory developments such as the use of the MALDI technique and computational methods that can be used to detect newer protein biomarkers of cancers in diagnosis and to evaluate the success of treatment. BT - Advances in Cancer Management SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/22613 DO - 10.5772/22613 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -