Preoperative radiation dose escalation for rectal cancer using a concomitant boost strategy improves tumor downstaging without increasing toxicity: A matched-pair analysis

PURPOSE: Pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (CRT) is associated with improved outcomes for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Increased response rates have been reported with higher radiation doses, but these studies often lack long-term outcome and/...

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Autores principales: Gunther, Jillian R., Chadha, Awalpreet S., Shin, Ui Sup, Park, In Ja, Kattepogu, Kiran V., Grant, Jonathan D., Weksberg, David C., Eng, Cathy, Kopetz, Scott E., Das, Prajnan, Delclos, Marc E., Kaur, Harmeet, Maru, Dipen M., Skibber, John M., Rodriguez-Bigas, Miguel A., You, Y. Nancy, Krishnan, Sunil, Chang, George J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Scientific Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2017.04.001

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