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Commentary (Kelsen): Adjuvant Therapy for Colorectal Cancer
As well-outlined by Drs. Beavan and Goldberg, in the past 20 years, the outlook for these patients has gone from pessimism that anything more than surgery was useful to certainty that we can markedly decrease the risk of recurrence. At least some steps have been made in clearly identifying which patients should receive adjuvant therapy. There is general agreement on current effective regimens, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.321.7270.1208