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A meta-analysis of the watch-and-wait strategy versus total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer exhibiting complete clinical response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

BACKGROUND: Some clinical researchers have reported that patients with cCR (clinical complete response) status after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) could adopt the watch-and-wait (W&W) strategy. Compared with total mesorectal excision (TME) surgery, the W&W strategy could achieve a sim...

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Autores principales: Yu, Guilin, Lu, Wenqing, Jiao, Zhouguang, Qiao, Jun, Ma, Shiyang, Liu, Xin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34663341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-021-02415-y