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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Initiative Promotes Multidisciplinary Approach To Improve Rectal Cancer Outcomes

Brings Model to the United States That Has Helped Patients in Europe for Years

By Thomas Rosenthal

Hospitals across the United States can now apply to participate in the new National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC) that uses a multidisciplinary team approach to achieve better outcomes for patients, according to the societies that developed the program.

“The ability of numerous specialists in multiple disciplines to work together in a collaborative effort to improve outcomes of patients attests to what we hope will be the success of the project,”