Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in rectal cancer operated for cure.

Høirup Petersen, Sune; Harling, Henrik; T. Kirkeby, Lene; Wille-Jørgensen, Peer; Mocellin, Simone

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd004078.pub2

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Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in rectal cancer operated for cure.

Published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews • Mar 9, 2012

Authors:

Sune Høirup Petersen

Henrik Harling

Lene T. Kirkeby

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western world. Apart from surgery - which remains the mainstay of treatment for resectable primary tumours - postoperative (i.e., adjuvant) chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) based regimens is now the standard treatm...

Subject

Medicine

Colorectal cancer

Chemotherapy

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