Postoperative Pathophysiology and Choice of Incision.- Fast-Track Colonic Surgery: Status and Perspectives.- Fast-Track Surgery: The Heidelberg Experience.- Rectal Cancer: A Compartmental Disease. The Mesorectum and Mesorectal Lymph Nodes.- The Pathological Assessment of Total Mesorectal Excision: What Are the Relevant Resection Margins?.- Is the Lateral Lymph Node Compartment Relevant?.- Diagnostics of Rectal Cancer: Endorectal Ultrasound.- Preoperative Staging of Rectal Cancer: The MERCURY Research Project.- Rectal Cancer Management: Europe Is Ahead.- Teaching Efforts to Spread TME Surgery in Sweden.- Learning Curve: The Surgeon as a Prognostic Factor in Colorectal Cancer Surgery.- Surgical Results of Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer in a Specialised Colorectal Unit.- Total Mesorectal Excision: The Heidelberg Results after TME.- Is Local Excision of T2/T3 Rectal Cancers Adequate?.- Operative Treatment of Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer.- Laparoscopic TME: Better Vision, Better Results?.- Laparoscopic TME-The Surgeon's or the Patient's Preference.- Laparoscopic Total Mesorectal Excision-The Turin Experience.- Evacuation of Neorectal Reservoirs after TME.- Long-Term Functional Results After Straight or Colonic J-Pouch Coloanal Anastomosis.- Urinary and Sexual Function After Total Mesorectal Excision.- Functional Results of the Colon J-Pouch Versus Transverse Coloplasty Pouch in Heidelberg.- Indications for Neoadjuvant Long-Term Radiotherapy.- Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy and Radiochemotherapy for Rectal Cancer.- Adjuvant Radiochemotherapy for Rectal Cancer.- Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Rectal Carcinoma.- Indications and Effect on Survival of Standard Chemotherapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer.- New Chemotherapeutic Strategies in Colorectal Cancer.- Active Specific Immunotherapy in Colon Cancer.- Radiofrequency Ablation in Metastatic Disease.