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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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747849/ |