This volume provides an overview of the current evidence-based medical and surgical practice in emergency conditions in colorectal cancer patients. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective, taking into account the specific characteristics of colorectal cancer patients, the necessary pre-operative assessment, the endoscopic and radiological management, and the surgical treatments. Each chapter is supplemented  with tables, figures, key-point boxes, schematic representations, and decision-making trees that serve as easy-to-use tools to apply in the different scenarios requiring acute care. Recommendations for best practice and the main reference articles are included for each topic, as well as numerous illustrated clinical cases with cilnical and empirical evidence regarding the surgical management of colorectal cancer. Specific technical aspects of the different surgical interventions and approaches (e.g., open surgery, laparoscopy, and robotics) are also detailed.
This book is intended for residents and emergency surgeons, as well as all practictioners who treat colorectal cancer patients, such as gastroenterologists, oncologists, and radiologists.

1. Colorectal Cancer Research: A State of the Art

2. Epidemiology of colorectal cancer: incidence, survival and risk factors
3. Socioeconomic impact of emergency therapies for colorectal cancer
4. Acute care and surgical risk assessment
5. Complicated Colorectal Cancer: Role of Imaging
6. Principles of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer emergency - Colonoscopy protocols in emergency settings
7. Management of colonoscopy complications
8. Emergencies related to primary colon cancer: multidisciplinary management of colon obstruction, perforation and bleeding due to colon cancer in absence of metastatic disease
9. Emergencies related to primary rectal cancer
10. Peritoneal Carcinomatosis and other emergencies not related to primary colorectal cancer
11. Emergencies related to advanced metastatic colorectal cancer
12. Multidisciplinary management of post-operative complications
13. Enhanced Recovery After Emergency Colorectal Surgery
14. Medical and surgical management of colorectal cancer patients receiving immunotherapy
15. Medical and surgical management of colorectal cancer patients presenting with hemostatic disorders
16. Medical and Surgical Management of Colorectal Cancer Emergencies in Elderly Patients
17. Colorectal cancer surgical emergency in transplanted patients
18. Colorectal cancer surgical emergencies in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
19. Emergency surgical management in rectal cancer patients following radiotherapy
20. Pathological analyses of colorectal cancer
21. Post-operative oncologic management of colorectal cancer emergencies
22. Minimally invasive surgery for colorectal cancer in the emergency setting
23. Indications for open abdomen in colorectal cancer emergency
24. Difficult decisions in colorectal cancer in emergency settings
25. Future Perspectives in Colorectal Cancer Treatments
26. Training curriculum for colorectal cancer surgery
27. Emergency colorectal surgery checklists and technical considerations
28. Clinical cases on colorectal cancer emergency.