title: [Radiotherapy in the adjuvant therapy of rectal cancer: comparison of two treatment schedules].
abstract: From 1988 to 1991 54 patient with carcinoma of the distal part of the rectum were cured in our Department. These patients were divided into two groups (similar with regard to sex, age and advance of disease). In group I (28 patients) abdomino-perineal resection was performed, accompanied (according to histo-pathological indications) by adjuvant radiotherapy to maximal dose 6000 cGy. In group II such procedure was preceded by "short" radiotherapy (4 x 500 cGy). Local recurrence rate was 17.8% in group I and 11.5% in group II.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preoperative radiotherapy (for example "short" schedule 4 x 500 cGy) may decrease number of local recurrences after abdomino-perineal resections in rectal cancer cases. This procedure effects no technical problems and complications during and after operations.
authors.affiliation: I Oddziału Chirurgii Onkologicznej Wielkopolskiego Centrum Onkologii w Poznaniu.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Murawa
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nowakowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wasiewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery