Preoperative short-course radiotherapy versus combined radiochemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multi-centre prospectively randomised study of the Berlin Cancer Society

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[1] Camma C(2000)Preoperative radiotherapy for resectable rectal cancer: A meta-analysis JAMA 284 1008-1015

[2] Giunta M(2001)Preoperative Radiotherapy Combined with Total Mesorectal Excision for Resectable Rectal Cancer N Engl J Med 345 638-646

[3] Fiorica F(1997)Improved Survival with Preoperative Radiotherapy in Resectable Rectal Cancer N Engl J Med 336 980-987

[4] Pagliaro L(2004)Preoperative versus Postoperative Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer N Engl J Med 351 1731-1740

[5] Craxi A(1998)Rectal cancer: the Basingstoke experience of total mesorectal excision, 1978–1997 Arch Surg 133 894-899

[6] Cottone M(2006)Chemotherapy with Preoperative Radiotherapy in Rectal Cancer N Engl J Med 355 1114-1123

[7] Kapiteijn E(2006)Long-term results of a randomized trial comparing preoperative short-course radiotherapy with preoperative conventionally fractionated chemoradiation for rectal cancer Br J Surg 93 1215-23

[8] Marijnen CA(2008)Rectal cancer at the crossroads: the dilemma of clinically staged T3, N0, M0 disease J Clin Oncol 26 350-351

[9] Nagtegaal ID(2005)Penelized spline smoothing in multiple variable models with varying coefficients Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 49 169-186

[10] Putter H(1979)A multiple testing procedure for clinical trials Biometrics 35 549-556