Coloproctology: A Practical Guide

Colorectal surgery has been evolving rapidly over recent years and the COVID pandemic has necessitated a critical approach to all aspects of care. 

This book offers an up-to-date appraisal of the increasingly used neoadjuvant therapy. In many situations a multidisciplinary approach is taken to achieve high quality and successful outcomes. In addition, topics such as the management of the open abdomen, complex abdominal wall reconstruction, artificial intelligence and modern management of inflammatory bowel disease are covered.

Written by experts in their field, this book is of interest to both trainees and practicing surgeons in coloproctology.

Martyn Evans BM, MPhil, FRCS (Gen) is a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon in Swansea and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Swansea University. He has a particular interest in surgery for advanced and recurrent pelvic malignancy. Martyn was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in 2012. Prior to appointment, he completed his undergraduate training in Southampton and then undertook basic and higher surgical training on the south coast of England and in Wales. After completion of training, he undertook a post CCT fellowship in laparoscopic colorectal and advanced pelvic malignancy at the John Goligher Colorectal Unit in Leeds.

He is currently an Editor for the surgical journal BJS (formerly the British Journal of Surgery), The Lead Clinician for the Wales Bowel Cancer Initiative and Chairs the UK National Bowel Cancer Clinical Project Board.

Mark Davies BSc, MB BS, MS, FRCS (Gen Surg) Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon in Swansea Bay University Health Board and an Associate Professor at Swansea University. Mr Davies qualified from The London Hospital Medical College in 1995. He was awarded a Master of Surgery by the University of London, for a thesis into the development and progression of colorectal cancer. He completed his training in general and colorectal surgery in London, Cardiff and Swansea and undertook a fellowship in complex pelvic surgery at The Christie Hospital in Manchester.
Since his appointment as an NHS consultant in Swansea in 2007, he has specialised in the management of a wide range of malignant and benign colorectal conditions, but specifically diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy, minimally invasive surgery, diverticular disease, anal conditions and inflammatory bowel disease.

Rhiannon Harries BMBS, MD, FRCS (GenSurg) is Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at Swansea Bay University Health Board, and Honorary Senior Lecturer for Swansea University. Her clinical interests lie in colorectal and anal cancer, and complex abdominal wall reconstruction surgery. She has led on setting up tertiary complex abdominal wall Multi-disciplinary Team for South Wales. Rhiannon previously completed a post-CCT fellow in complex abdominal wall reconstruction based at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, as well as grant funded travelling fellowships to abdominal wall units in North Carolina, USA and Ghent, Belgium and the colorectal unit at the Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden. She was previously awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng) Research Fellowship for her MD awarded by Cardiff University and was co-investigator for the Hughes Abdominal Repair Trial (HART), a NIHR funded randomised controlled trial comparing suturing techniques for abdominal wall closure in order to prevent incisional hernia formation. Rhiannon also has a strong interest in medical education and training and was the 40th President of the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) in 2015-16, co-convener for the Wales FRCS General Surgery Viva Revision Course, RCS Surgical tutor and year three lead for Swansea Graduate Entry Medicine Programme.

John Beynon BSc, MBBS, FRCS, MS is retired Professor of Surgery at the Swansea Bay University Health Board. Professor Beynon trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College qualifying in 1980 and subsequently undertook surgical training in Cardiff, Bristol and St Mark's Hospital London. He was formerly Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Swansea Bay University Health Board. He was awarded his Certificate of Accreditation in General Surgery RCS in 1992. Professor Beynon is also a former Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England & recipient of the John of Arderne Medal at the Royal Society of Medicine.

He was previously editor for the BJS (formerly the British Journal of Surgery), member of the court of examiners Royal College of Surgeons of England for the intercollegiate MRCS and the Intercollegiate Specialty Board in General Surgery for the final FRCS.