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When should chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer be done?

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boxed-textSauer R et al. (2004) Preoperative versus postoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer. N Engl J Med 351: 1731–1740

Preoperative rather than postoperative radiotherapy should be used for the treatment of rectal cancer, however, the toxicity of radiotherapy either alone or as chemoradiotherapy should be considered

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