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Letter to the editor regarding “Does adding lateral pelvic lymph node dissection to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improve outcomes in low rectal cancer?”

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This work was supported by 1•3•5 project for disciplines of excellence-Clinical Research Incubation Project, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (No. 2019HXFH031).

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  1. Xubing Zhang, Yuanchuan Zhang, Mingtian Wei and Meng Wang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang No. 37, Chengdu, 610041, China

    Xubing Zhang, Mingtian Wei, Xuyang Yang, Xiangbing Deng & Ziqiang Wang

  2. Department of General Surgery, The Third People’s Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China

    Yuanchuan Zhang & Meng Wang

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Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Wei, M. et al. Letter to the editor regarding “Does adding lateral pelvic lymph node dissection to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improve outcomes in low rectal cancer?”. Int J Colorectal Dis 35, 2139–2140 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-020-03683-y

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