Comparative study reveals preoperative chemoradiotherapy improves local control and reduces toxicity in rectal cancer, highlighting clinical benefits despite unchanged overall survival.
Preoperative chemoradiotherapy, as compared with postoperative chemoradiotherapy, improved local control and was associated with reduced toxicity but did not improve overall survival.
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