title: Radio (chemo) therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer.
abstract: Radiotherapy has an role in combined treatment to lower local recurrence in resectable rectal cancer. Radiotherapy also has an established role in nonresectable rectal cancers to increase the operability, but radiochemotherapy is more efficient. Radiotherapy can be administered as a transcutaneous therapy on the megavoltage machines as well as brachytherapy and combined--transcutaneous and brachytherapy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
authors.forename: Lj
authors.initials: Lj
authors.lastname: Radosevic-Jelic
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000532:radiotherapy*