Randomized Trial of Short-Course Radiotherapy Versus Long-Course Chemoradiation Comparing Rates of Local Recurrence in Patients With T3 Rectal Cancer: Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group Trial 01.04

Y. Ngan, Samuel; Burmeister, Bryan; Fisher, Richard; J. Solomon, Michael; Goldstein, David; Joseph, David; P. Ackland, Stephen; Schache, David; McClure, Bev; McLachlan, Sue‐Anne; McKendrick, Joseph; Leong, Trevor; Hartopeanu, Cris; Zalcberg, John; Mackay, John

doi:10.1200/jco.2012.42.9597

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Randomized Trial of Short-Course Radiotherapy Versus Long-Course Chemoradiation Comparing Rates of Local Recurrence in Patients With T3 Rectal Cancer: Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group Trial 01.04

Published in Journal of Clinical Oncology • Sep 25, 2012

Authors:

Samuel Y. Ngan

Bryan Burmeister

Richard Fisher

Abstract

PURPOSE: To compare the local recurrence (LR) rate between short-course (SC) and long-course (LC) neoadjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Eligible patients had ultrasound- or magnetic resonance imaging-staged T3N0-2M0 rectal adenocarcinoma within 12 cm from anal verge. SC c...

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Medicine

Radiation therapy

Hazard ratio

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