Dear Colleagues,

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic unfortunately our 8th DDCRS meeting will be held as part of the 30th Biennial ISUCRS 2020 Congress from the 11-14th November 2020.

The DDCRS debate session will be run on the 13th Nov from 13:30-15:00 JST as a Virtual Online Meeting.​

PROGRAMME FOR FRIDAY 13TH NOV 13:30-15:00 JST

DEBATE TOPICS

Moderators: Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, UK & Narimantas Samalavicius, Lithuania

1. ESD versus TAMIS/TEM/TEO for T1 rectal cancer - Sergio Larach, USA (For TAMIS/TEM/TEO) vrs Eui-Gon Youk, Korea (FOR ESD) 

2. Routine lymph node dissection versus neoadjuvant radiotherapy in rectal cancer. My way is the right way!  Rich Fortunato, USA (For NAR) & Dai Shida, Japan (For RLND) 

3. TaTME – Hype or the next best thing in rectal cancer surgery - Jean Jac Tuech, France (For TaTME) vrs Hans Wasmuth, Norway (Against TaTME) 


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