There is increasing interest in the use of local excision and postoperative radiation therapy (RT) as a sphincter-sparing approach for selected rectal cancers. The data suggest that this treatment approach should be limited to patients with either T 1 tumors with adverse pathologic factors or T 2 tu
Selection criteria for local excision with or without adjuvant radiation therapy for rectal cancer
โ Scribed by Bruce D. Minsky; Tyvin Rich; Abram Recht; William Harvey; Carolyn Mies
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 874 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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