Timing of Surgery after Neoadjuvant Long-course Chemoradiotherapy in the Management of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
| Autor: | I.G. Panagiotopoulou, M. Menon, Deepak Parashar, JJ Parmar, C.R. Jephcott, AD Wells, R. Mezher-Sikafi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Preoperative chemoradiotherapy Time Factors Rectal Neoplasms business.industry Colorectal cancer Locally advanced Chemoradiotherapy medicine.disease Neoadjuvant Therapy Surgery Oncology Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging business Complete response Neoplasm Staging |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Oncology. 24:e195 |
| ISSN: | 0936-6555 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.clon.2012.09.002 |
| Popis: | Sir — Although preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is standard practice in the UK for the management of locally advanced rectal cancer, the optimal timing of surgery after CRT remains unclear [1,2]. Higher rates of histopathological complete response with a time interval to surgery of greater than 7 weeks have previously been reported [1,3]. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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