A dose escalation with endocavitary irradiation provides increased tumor response and sphincter preservation with no detrimental effect on treatment toxicity and early clinical outcome.
Such a combined preoperative chemoradiotherapy and oxaliplatin-containing regimen is well tolerated with no increase in surgical toxicity. The good response rate observed warrants its use in further clinical trials.
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