Is there a need for neoadjuvant short-course radiotherapy in T3 rectal cancer with positive lymph node involvement? A single-center retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Neoadjuvant short-course radiotherapy is used to reduce local recurrences in stage III rectal cancer. Radiotherapy is not harmless, and meticulous total mesorectal excision surgery alone has been reported to result in low local recurrence rate in favorable stage III tumors. The aim was t...

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Autores principales: Räsänen, Minna, Renkonen-Sinisalo, Laura, Mustonen, Harri, Lepistö, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31395058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1670-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31395058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1670-0

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