Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Dr. Vanessa Wookey Presents Rectal Cancer Research at 24th Annual ECOG-ACRIN Young Investigator Symposium
PHILADELPHIA (November 12, 2024) — For patients with cancer in the lower part of the rectum that has not spread to the lymph nodes, chemotherapy administered before localized surgery is an effective method of preserving a patient’s surrounding organs, according to a new study by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center.