RT Journal
A1 Nambiar RM
T1 Invited critique: Resection with external beam and intraoperative radiotherapy for recurrent colon cancer
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1999
FD January 1
VO 134
IS 1
SP 67
OP 67
DO 10.1001/archsurg.134.1.67
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.134.1.67
AB 
Using this combination, Pezner and colleagues successfully treated a few patients with bulky recurrent colon tumors and achieved long-term local control and survival. Although small in number, this study has further illustrated important points. Intraoperative radiotherapy has the advantage of delivering a high-energy electron beam in a single dose to a clearly defined residual tumor bed without exposure and damage to adjacent organs and tissues. However, IORT and EBRT cannot eliminate local failures if complete tumor excision is not achieved, as observed in this study and others.1 Curative resections are often not possible in locally recurrent colon lesions because most recurrent tumors manifest with fixity to adjacent structures.