Clinically Node Negative, Pathologically Node Positive Rectal Cancer Patients Who Did Not Receive Neoadjuvant Therapy

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• 作者：Nouf Akeel ; Nan Lan ; Luca Stocchi…
• 关键词：Rectal cancer ; Rectal cancer imaging ; Surgery ; Adjuvant therapy ; Chemotherapy ; Radiotherapy
• 刊名：Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：49-55
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• 刊物主题：Surgery; Gastroenterology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1873-4626
• 卷排序：21

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PurposeNeoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is the preferred standard of care for clinical stages II–III rectal cancer. It is uncertain whether clinically node negative (cN−) tumors found to be pathologically stage III could be optimally treated with surgery alone and avoid adjuvant treatments. The aim of our study was to define the outcomes of such patients.