Feasibility of neoadjuvant therapy for elderly patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.

Tetsuro TominagaToshiya NagasakiTakashi AkiyoshiYosuke FukunagaYoshiya FujimotoTomohiro YamaguchiTsuyoshi KonishiSatoshi NagayamaMasashi Ueno

Published in: Surgery today (2019)

Neoadjuvant therapy was feasible and should be considered as a treatment option for carefully selected elderly patients with locally advanced low rectal cancer.

Keyphrases

rectal cancer
locally advanced
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
phase ii study
squamous cell carcinoma
radiation therapy
middle aged
stem cells