Epidermoid cancers of the anal canal

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

Seminars Colon Rectal Surgery

Abstract

Squamous cell cancer of the anal canal continues to be a rare cancer. Recently, the incidence has been slowly rising in part due to longer-term HIV survivors and in part due to high prevalence of HPV. Early detection and treatment in these high-risk groups is imperative to increasing the survival of the disease. Chemoradiation remains the standard of care for primary therapy, reserving surgical resection for salvage

Volume

26

Issue

2

First Page

68

Last Page

72

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