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Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Pathologic Response After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

S.K. Chennupati, Andrew Quon, Aya Kamaya, Reetesh K. Pai, Trang H. La, Trevor Krakow, Edward E. Graves, Albert C. Koong, Daniel T. Chang

American Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2011 · 27 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

Changes seen on PET have limited value in predicting for pathologic response of rectal cancer after preoperative neoadjuvant therapy.

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