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Intraoperative radiotherapy as an immediate adjuvant treatment of rectal cancer due to limited access to external-beam radiotherapy

BACKGROUND: Neoadjuvant external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with concomitant chemotherapy is the current standard-of-care for locally-advanced rectal cancer. Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is to date only recommended for pelvic recurrences or incompletely resectable tumors. We here report on patie...

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Autores principales: Potemin, Sergey, Kübler, Jens, Uvarov, Ivan, Wenz, Frederik, Giordano, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6954580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31924250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-020-1458-y