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- Title
Organ preservation in rectal cancer.
- Authors
Penninckx, F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the management of fit patients with early low and mid rectal cancer, and explores the possibility and safety of organ preservation. It states the importance of surgical standard of total mesorectal excision (TME) to the multimodal management of rectal cancer as well as the contribution of preoperative short-course radiotherapy in further improving the local control.
- Subjects
RECTAL cancer; CANCER patients; PRESERVATION of organs, tissues, etc.; SURGICAL excision; RADIOTHERAPY
- Publication
British Journal of Surgery, 2008, Vol 95, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
0007-1323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bjs.6158