The Stockholm I trial of preoperative short term radiotherapy in operable rectal carcinoma

Background. From 1980 to 1987, 849 patients with clinically resectable rectal adenocarcinoma were randomized into a controlled clinical trial to evaluate the role of preoperative radiotherapy.

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