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REVIEW article
Oncol. Rev.
Sec. Oncology Reviews: Reviews
Volume 19 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/or.2025.1567818
Efficacies of radiotherapy in rectal cancer patients treated with total mesorectal excision or other types of surgery: an updated meta-analysis
Provisionally accepted
Wenshu Wang1
Runyuan Zhao2Xi Liang1Manjun Liu1Haiyan Bai1Jianli Ge1Binxi Yao1Zheng Zhi1*Jianming He1*- 1Hebei Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Hebei, China
- 2Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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total mesorectal excision (TME); other types of surgery (not-TME-only); Overall survival (OS); long course concurrent chemoradiotherapy (LCCRT); Radiotherapy (RT); multidisciplinary treatment (MDT); locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC); local recurrence (LR); concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT); disease-free survival (DFS); distant metastases-free survival (DMFS); Hazard ratio (HR); Odds ratio (OR); 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT); intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT); pathological complete response (pCR); total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT)
Keywords: rectal cancer, Radiotherapy, concurrent chemoradiotherapy, Surgery, TME
Received: 28 Jan 2025; Accepted: 18 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Zhao, Liang, Liu, Bai, Ge, Yao, Zhi and He. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zheng Zhi, Hebei Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Hebei, China
Jianming He, Hebei Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Hebei, China
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