Cancer of the Rectum

Leibel and Phillips Textbook of Radiation Oncology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 851-869

  Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Welton, Mark L ^b   Venook, Alan P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-5897-7.00042-1     Document Type: Chapter

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