In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Drs. Abhineet Uppal and Shirin Sabbaghian Hebert will discuss management considerations for the treatment of lateral pelvic nodes in patients with rectal cancer.  We have the great opportunity to speak with Dr. Tsuyoshi Konishi (MD-PhD), who has maintained an essential role within the Lateral Node Study Consortium.   He is a great resource of knowledge in this field as he trained at the University of Tokyo in Japan, where lateral node dissection is performed more routinely for patients with rectal cancer. Following his training, he worked at the Cancer Institute Hospital of the JFCR in Tokyo as faculty for a decade. .  We are fortunate to have him working with us here in the United States as Associate Professor of Surgery at MD Anderson.