Patient-centered developments in colon- and rectal cancer with a multidisciplinary international team: From translational research to national guidelines

Figure 1 Examples for surgical treatment recommendations in the FOGT protocols and quality level of one participant´s surgical team applying these recommendations (Link KH) in the benchmarking of German Cancer Society Bowel Centers. A: The best standard-of-care in rectal resection was total mesorectal excision according to Heald RJ; B: Lateral nerve preserving lymph node dissection could be applied in cases with lateral LN-metastasis (diagnosed in the preoperative MRI) according to Mori T; C: The variation of results of quality control in German Bowel Centers is demonstrated [marked in red color is the position of APK Wiesbaden under leadership of the first author; dark green = bowel units that were rated as top groups (Link KH)].