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New approaches to treating rectal cancer may remove the need for radiation therapy and its life changing side effects.

New approaches to treating rectal cancer may remove the need for radiation therapy and its life-changing side effects. Once you hear your doctor say the word cancer, your mind goes blank and you have opened the door to aggressive and life-changing treatments and years of future monitoring. Years ago, my father had cancer in the prostate which was treated with radiation which was supposed to be a less aggressive method back then when combined with hormone therapy.   20 years later he became incontinent from the radiation which we now know can be addressed better with monitoring. In the world of Read More »