Population-based study of effectiveness of neoadjuvant radiotherapy on survival in US rectal cancer patients according to age

Abstract Recent cancer researches pay more attention to younger patients due to the variable treatment response among different age groups. Here we investigated the effectiveness of neoadjuvant radiation on the survival of younger and older patients in stage II/III rectal cancer. Data was obtained f...

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Main Authors: Leilei Wu, Shichao Pang, Qianlan Yao, Chen Jian, Ping Lin, Fangyoumin Feng, Hong Li, Yixue Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02992-7