Multidisciplinary treatment of patients with rectal cancer: Development during the past decades and plans for the future.

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Published in Ups J Med Sci on May 01, 2012

Authors

Bengt Glimelius1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiology, Oncology and Radiation Science, Uppsala University, Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden. bengt.glimelius@onkologi.uu.se

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