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Selection Criteria for Local Therapy of Rectal Cancer
| Patient characteristics |
| Unfit for major surgery |
| Refusing major surgery |
| Small primary cancer with advanced distant metastasis |
| After neoadjuvant therapy* |
| Tumor characteristics |
| Mobile (confined to the bowel wall) |
| ≤ 3 cm in diameter† |
| Located below the peritoneal reflection† |
| Well or moderately differentiated |
Currently under investigation.
May be relative contraindications with use of transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM).
