title: Radiotherapy and rectal cancer.
abstract: Pre-operative radiotherapy is being used to reduce local recurrence and improve survival following surgery for rectal cancer. A report by Nagtegaal et al. analyses the histopathological effects in a large, randomized study employing short course radiotherapy. In future, changes in some of these tumour parameters will have to be considered when auditing rectal cancer resections and identifying prognostic factors.
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery