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Colon Cancer Surgical Treatment: Principles of Colectomy

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Surgical resection is the primary treatment for colon cancer without distant metastases. The quality of colectomy predicts surgical and oncologic outcomes. Appropriate surgical resection entails resecting the segment of colon containing the primary tumor, the associated lymph nodes draining that segment, and en bloc resection of involved organs/tissues to achieve negative margins. Successful resection requires an intimate understanding of anatomy, surgical planes, and the colonic vasculature. This chapter will review the principals and technical aspects of oncologic resection of intraperitoneal colon cancer.

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  1. University of Wisconsin, Department of General Surgery, Madison, WI, USA

    Evie H. Carchman

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Matthew F. Kalady

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  1. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Scott R. Steele

  2. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Tracy L. Hull

  3. University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Neil Hyman

  4. Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Justin A. Maykel

  5. Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Thomas E. Read

  6. Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Charles B. Whitlow

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Carchman, E.H., Kalady, M.F. (2022). Colon Cancer Surgical Treatment: Principles of Colectomy. In: Steele, S.R., Hull, T.L., Hyman, N., Maykel, J.A., Read, T.E., Whitlow, C.B. (eds) The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66049-9_25

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