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A review of preoperative chemoradiotherapy for lower rectal cancer

In Western countries, rectal cancer has been treated by chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for several decades now, and good local control has been reported. However, Japanese guidelines did not strongly recommend CRT, because CRT is only useful for achieving local control and imbues no survival benefit. For t...

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Autores principales: Beppu, Naohito, Yanagi, Hidenori, Tomita, Naohiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Society of Coloproctology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31583303
http://dx.doi.org/10.23922/jarc.2017-013