Effect of Neoadjuvant Systemic Chemotherapy With or Without Chemoradiation on Bowel Function in Rectal Cancer Patients Treated With Total Mesorectal Excision.

Felipe Quezada-DiazRosa M Jimenez-RodriguezEmmanouil P PappouJ Joshua SmithSujata PatilIris WeiJose G GuillemPhilip B PatyGarrett M NashMartin R WeiserJulio Garcia-Aguilar

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)

NC, whether administered alone or added to CRT, does not seem to impair bowel function. These data should be used to counsel rectal cancer patients when discussing neoadjuvant therapy options.

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