Randomized Phase III Study Comparing Preoperative Radiotherapy With Chemoradiotherapy in Nonresectable Rectal Cancer - Concepedia

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Randomized Phase III Study Comparing Preoperative Radiotherapy With Chemoradiotherapy in Nonresectable Rectal Cancer

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2008

Year

Morten Brændengen, Kjell M. Tveit, Åke Berglund, Elke Birkemeyer, Gunilla Frykholm, Lars Påhlman, Johan N. Wiig, Per Byström, Krzysztof Bujko, Bengt Glimelius

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Abstract

CRT improved local control, time to treatment failure, and cancer-specific survival compared with RT alone in patients with nonresectable rectal cancer. The treatments were well tolerated.

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