Erratum to: Efficacy and short-term outcomes of preoperative chemoradiotherapy with intermittent oral tegafur-uracil plus leucovorin in Japanese rectal cancer patients: a single center experience retrospective analysis
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N/A not applicable Erratum Upon Publication of the original manuscript [1] several discrepancies were highlighted in both the Abstract and Tables 5 and 6. The errors in tables 5 and 6 have since been acknowledged and corrected in this erratum. This manuscript was also updated to amend the abstract. It was highlighted that errors were present in both tables 5 and 6. The values given in these tables were incorrect and were misleading to the reader. These errors change neither the outcome of the experiments nor the conclusions of the article.
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Efficacy and short-term outcomes of preoperative chemoradiotherapy with intermittent oral tegafur-uracil plus leucovorin in Japanese rectal cancer patients: a single center experience retrospective analysis
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