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Palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy instead of surgery in symptomatic rectal cancer with synchronous unresectable metastases: long-term results of a phase II study

Dobromira Tyc-Szczepaniak, Lucjan Wyrwicz, Katarzyna Wiśniowska, Wojciech Michalski, Lucyna Pietrzak, Krzysztof Bujko

Acta Oncologica · 2016 · 11 citations · 8 references

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To the Editor,Creation of stoma is often an initial treatment for patients with low-lying symptomatic rectal cancer and never resectable synchronous distant metastases. However, a stoma impairs som...

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Long-term results of a randomized trial comparing preoperative short-course radiotherapy with preoperative conventionally fractionated chemoradiation for rectal cancer

Krzysztof Bujko, Marek P. Nowacki, Anna Nasierowska‐Guttmejer et al. · British journal of surgery · 2006 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Long-course oxaliplatin-based preoperative chemoradiation versus 5 × 5 Gy and consolidation chemotherapy for cT4 or fixed cT3 rectal cancer: results of a randomized phase III study

Krzysztof Bujko, Lucjan Wyrwicz, Andrzej Rutkowski et al. · Annals of Oncology · 2016 · 444 citations · Full text

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Short-course preoperative radiotherapy with delayed surgery in rectal cancer – A retrospective study

Calin Radu, Åke Berglund, Lars Påhlman et al. · Radiotherapy and Oncology · 2008 · 217 citations

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Evaluation of short-course radiotherapy followed by neoadjuvant bevacizumab, capecitabine, and oxaliplatin and subsequent radical surgical treatment in primary stage IV rectal cancer

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Evaluation of Palliative Irradiation in Rectal Carcinoma

Nelson Urdaneta-Lafeé, Morton M. Kligerman, Arthur H. Knowlton · Radiology · 1972 · 62 citations

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