Preoperative chemoradiotherapy in the management of localized rectal cancer: the new standard.

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Published in Gastrointest Cancer Res on March 01, 2007

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Theodore S Hong1, Lisa A Kachnic

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1: Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

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