Improved Survival with Preoperative Radiotherapy in Resectable Rectal Cancer

Rectal Cancer Trial, Swedish

doi:10.1056/nejm199704033361402

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Improved Survival with Preoperative Radiotherapy in Resectable Rectal Cancer

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Apr 3, 1997

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Swedish Rectal Cancer Trial

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Adjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer has been extensively studied, but no trial has unequivocally demonstrated improved overall survival with radiotherapy, despite a reduction in the rate of local recurrence. METHODS: Between March 1987 and February 1990, we randomly assigned 1168 pat...

Subject

Medicine

Radiation therapy

Colorectal cancer

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