[Up-to-date approach to the treatment of rectal cancer].

During the last 15 years 2404 radical operations of various types were carried out for cancer of the rectum. The rate of postoperative complications made up 28.3% and mortality--2.

[Transanal resection of the rectum].

A new method of an organ-preserving operation for the management of the initial forms of rectal carcinoma and benign tumors of the distal parts of the rectum has been elaborated and successfully used at the Scientific Research Institute of Proctology. It consists in transanal resection of the rectum with creation of a recto-anal anastomosis. Transanal resection of the rectum was performed on 34 patients.