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‘Watch-and-wait’ strategy could safely replace surgery in more than 20% of rectal cancers
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‘Watch-and-wait’ strategy could safely replace surgery in more than 20% of rectal cancers

by Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown A team of doctors and scientists from the Champalimaud Clinical Centre in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, has shown that patients with “low” rectal cancer (that is, very close to the anus) who show no sign of tumors after a course of radio- and chemotherapy...