Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS) is a specialised minimally invasive approach for removing benign polyps and early stage cancerous tumours within the rectum and lower sigmoid colon.
Our May Paper of the Month commentary concerns the organ preservation approach for small rectal cancers. It is the first randomized study comparing local excision to TME after radiochemotherapy.
ESCP Research Committee Chair, Professor Dion Morton, will be speaking at the ACPGBI Annual Meeting in Birmingham this July on ‘‘What have randomised trials done for patients with colorectal disease?’.
European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Executive Member Peter Christensen attended the Colorectal Cancer Policy Roundtable in Brussels arranged by the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS) on the 25th April. The roundtable was planned to feed into the development of the European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (ECICC).