Down-staging following neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: Does timing of surgery really matter?

BACKGROUND: Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACTRT) improves local recurrence rate in locally advanced (LA) rectal cancer with no survival benefit. Pathological complete response (pCR) post-NACTRT is associated with improved outcome. Debate is ongoing as to when would be the opportune time to operate...

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Vydáno v:Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol
Hlavní autoři: Sirohi, Bhawna, Barreto, Savio George, Patkar, Shraddha, Gupta, Alok, DeSouza, Ashwin, Talole, Sanjay, Deodhar, Kedar, Shetty, Nitin, Engineer, Reena, Goel, Mahesh, Shrikhande, Shailesh V.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4264271/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538402
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.144986
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