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Radiotherapy and rectal cancer
Author(s) -
Scott N.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the journal of pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.964
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1096-9896
pISSN - 0022-3417
DOI - 10.1002/path.1097
Subject(s) - radiation therapy , medicine , colorectal cancer , randomized controlled trial , cancer , audit , surgery , management , economics
Pre‐operative radiotherapy is being used to reduce local recurrence and improve survival following surgery for rectal cancer. A report by Nagtegaal et al . analyses the histopathological effects in a large, randomized study employing short course radiotherapy. In future, changes in some of these tumour parameters will have to be considered when auditing rectal cancer resections and identifying prognostic factors. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.