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Short-course radiotherapy followed by neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer – the RAPIDO trial

BACKGROUND: Current standard for most of the locally advanced rectal cancers is preoperative chemoradiotherapy, and, variably per institution, postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. Short-course preoperative radiation with delayed surgery has been shown to induce tumour down-staging in both randomized...

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Autores principales: Nilsson, Per J, van Etten, Boudewijn, Hospers, Geke AP, Påhlman, Lars, van de Velde, Cornelis JH, Beets-Tan, Regina GH, Blomqvist, Lennart, Beukema, Jannet C, Kapiteijn, Ellen, Marijnen, Corrie AM, Nagtegaal, Iris D, Wiggers, Theo, Glimelius, Bengt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23742033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-279