Purpose Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy after or before resection of high-risk rectal cancer
improves overall survival (OS) and pelvic control. We studied three postoperative …

Randomized prospective trials have shown the benefits of adjuvant radiotherapy in
decreasing local recurrence rates in stage II and stage III rectal cancer. However, some …

Background: Although adjuvant radiotherapy was proved to be effective for local control of
rectal cancer even after standardized mesorectal excision, the role of adjuvant …

Background: In rectal cancer a high risk of local recurrence has been reported for patients
treated by surgery alone. It is also recognised that 20%–40% of rectal cancer patients …

Abstract Background and Objectives Geriatric population life expectancy is rapidly
increasing and the impact of major surgical procedures is not well defined. The purpose of …

We intend to analyse retrospectively whether the time interval (“gap duration”= GD) between
preoperative radiotherapy and surgery in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) has an …

Patients with rectal cancer are at high risk of disease recurrence despite neoadjuvant
radiochemotherapy with 5-Fluorouracil (5FU), a regimen that is now widely applied. In order …

Background and aims The role of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with
rectal cancer pretreated by preoperative radiochemotherapy (RCT) and curative surgery is …

Introduction The management of rectal cancer is multidisciplinary. We have devised and
implemented a standardized protocol. This study was designed to evaluate the protocol and …

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