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Colorectal cancer treatment - Treatment of colorectal cancer: Guideline Treatment Options 2026 | Booking Health / Is radiation therapy used for colon or rectal cancer?

"Radiation therapy is applied primarily to rectal cancer, where the anatomy allows precise targeting and where shrinking the tumor before surgery — or reducing recurrence risk after it — changes outcomes in measurable ways. Colon cancer is treated with radiation far less frequently, because the colon's mobility within the abdominal cavity makes consistent targeting difficult and systemic therapy covers most of the same clinical ground."

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