Extensive surgery after high-dose preoperative chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced recurrent rectal cancer
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 43 (3) , 312-319
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02258294
Abstract
PURPOSE:This was a pilot study of high-dose preoperative concurrent radiation and chemotherapy before extensive surgery in patients with locally advanced recurrent rectal cancer. Here we report on curative resectability, acute toxicities during chemoradiotherapy, surgical complications, locaKeywords
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