Key result
Further surgery after curative resection of colorectal cancer may not provide a survival benefit based on findings from a previously unpublished randomized controlled trial.
Why the study?
Does further surgery improve survival in patients with recurrent colorectal cancer after curative resection?
Does further surgery improve survival in patients with recurrent colorectal cancer after curative resection?
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A previously unpublished RCT casts doubt on the survival benefit of operating to remove recurrent colorectal cancer.
A randomised controlled trial that remained unpublished for 20 years casts doubt on the survival benefit of further surgery after curative resection of colorectal cancer. Tom Treasure and colleagues tell the story of the first trial restored under the restoring invisible and abandoned trials initiative and discuss what it means today
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Treasure et al. (2014) studied this question. Further surgery after curative resection of colorectal cancer may not provide a survival benefit based on findings from a previously unpublished randomized controlled trial.
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