Question

A 60-year-old man with rectal bleeding and altered bowel habit has a colonoscopy revealing a sigmoid tumour. CT scan shows no distant metastases. What is the best initial definitive treatment?

Accepted Answer

Surgical resection of the tumour

Answer

FOLFOX chemotherapy

Answer

Radiotherapy to the sigmoid colon

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Palliative stoma formation only

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Local endoscopic resection

Practice question

A 60-year-old man with rectal bleeding and altered bowel habit has a colonoscopy revealing a sigmoid tumour. CT scan shows no distant metastases. What is the best initial definitive treatment?