Future directions in combined modality therapy for rectal cancer: reevaluating the role of total mesorectal excision after chemoradiotherapy

Most patients who develop rectal cancer present with locoregionally advanced (T3 or node-positive) disease. The standard management of locoregionally advanced rectal cancer is neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy (nCRT), followed by radical resection (low-anterior resection or abdominoperineal r...

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Main Authors: Solanki, Abhishek A, Chang, Daniel T, Liauw, Stanley L
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Dove Medical Press 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747849/