Complications of adjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer.
The incidence of rectal cancer in the US is 45,000 per ann um. The 5-year survival is between 40 and 70%. This has not improved over the last 50 years despite improvements in techniques, the aid of new technology (surgical stapling devices in particular) and safer anesthesia.
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