Prognosis comparison between wait and watch and surgical strategy on rectal cancer patients after treatment with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: a meta-analysis
Background: After achieving a clinical complete response through neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, a nonoperative management approach for rectal cancer patients known as Wait and Watch (W&W) has gained increasing attention. However, the W&W strategy has been related to higher local recurrence a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-12-01
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Series: | Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1756284819892477 |