Browsing Surgery (Theses and Dissertations) by Author "McLean Smith, Fraser"

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    • Predictors of response of rectal cancer to neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy 

      McLean Smith, Fraser (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Surgery, 2007)
      Rectal cancers staged as cT3/T4 +/- node positive routinely receive neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (RCT) followed by total mesorectal excision (TME). By this approach tumours can be both downstaged and downsized resulting ...