# OnCo record paper-heald-mesorectum-rectal-cancer-surgery-br-j-surg-1982 (paper). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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  schema:identifier "paper-heald-mesorectum-rectal-cancer-surgery-br-j-surg-1982" ;
  schema:name "The mesorectum in rectal cancer surgery: the clue to pelvic recurrence?"@en ;
  schema:description "Bill Heald noticed cancer cells hiding in the fatty envelope around the rectum, centimetres below the tumour, and started removing the whole envelope intact. Pelvic recurrence fell from a quarter of patients to almost none."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-heald-mesorectum-rectal-cancer-surgery-br-j-surg-1982/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800691019>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6751457/> ;
  onco:tag "colorectal-evidence" ;
  schema:sameAs <https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800691019> ;
  schema:datePublished "1982"^^xsd:gYear ;
  schema:author "Heald RJ, Husband EM, Ryall RD." ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/roadmaps/surgery-roadmap/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-kapiteijn-dutch-tme-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-2001/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-sebag-montefiore-cr07-preoperative-radiotherapy-lancet-2009/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rectal-cancer/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/robotic-surgery/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/total-mesorectal-excision/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-workforce/> .