Short-term preoperative radiotherapy and total mesorectal excision have each been ... Among the 1748 patients who underwent a macroscopically complete local resection, the rate of local recurrence ...

With a total of 20,395 patients from the VIKINGO database, after exclusion criteria (8,866 did not receive nCRT; 10,395 with incomplete/complete pathologic response; 22 stage IV patients; 110 with ...