Prognosis of rectal cancer patients improves with downstaging by intensified neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy - a matched pair analysis

BACKGROUND: Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy has been proven superior to adjuvant treatment in reducing the rate of local recurrence without impairing cancer related survival or the incidence of distant metastases in standard protocols of neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy. The present study aimed at addres...

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Main Authors: Schiffmann, Leif, Klautke, Gunther, Wedermann, Nicole, Gock, Michael, Prall, Friedrich, Fietkau, Rainer, Rau, Bettina, Klar, Ernst
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765433/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23947828
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-388
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