Colonic Stenting No More Effective Than Emergency Surgery In Patients With Malignant Bowel Obstruction - QualityPoint Technologies

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Colonic Stenting No More Effective Than Emergency Surgery In Patients With Malignant Bowel Obstruction - QualityPoint Technologies

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The largest randomised trial to examine the effectiveness of two surgical interventions for treating acute malignant bowel obstruction, a common symptom of patients with colorectal cancer, suggests that preoperative colonic stenting offers no clear benefit over emergency surgery. The findings, published Online First in The Lancet Oncology, also suggest that colonic stenting has the potential to worsen clinical outcome because of a higher rate of tumour perforations that might cause the cancer to

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