Is rectal cancer curable?

Yes: If caught early, can be successfully treated with local excision or neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation followed by surgery. The key is early diagnosis! all bleeding should be thoroughly evaluated and appropriate screening with colonoscopies can prevent more advance and incurable colorectal cancers!

Yes: Early stage rectal cancer can be cured. "cure" usually means no detectable cancer 10 years after treatment. Late stage rectal cancer is generally not curable.