A clinical trial to evaluate the worth of preoperative multimodality therapy in patients with operable carcinoma of the rectum: a progress report of National Surgical Breast and Bowel Project Protocol R-03.

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Published in Dis Colon Rectum on February 01, 1997

Authors

D M Hyams1, E P Mamounas, N Petrelli, H Rockette, J Jones, H S Wieand, M Deutsch, L Wickerham, B Fisher, N Wolmark

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1: National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Operations Office, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-5234, USA.

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