1977
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197711)40:5<2365::aid-cncr2820400553>3.0.co;2-7
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Contemporary management of rectal cancer.An overview

Abstract: Surgery does not cure more than 50% of "curable" rectal cancers. Local, regional, and disseminated cancers unremoved and untreated by surgery and other modalities account for this unrelenting mortality for the past 20 years. The results and promise of current investigations in multimodality approaches are discussed. Studies on lymph node histopathology seem to offer reliable prognostic significance in local or regionally confined disease. The use of adjuvant preoperative radiation foretells increased curabilit… Show more

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