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Rectal Cancer: Can We Throw Away the Scalpel?

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, UNC/Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, CB#7213, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599–7213

    Michael O. Meyers MD

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, UNC/Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, CB #7512, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599–7512

    Joel E. Tepper MD

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Meyers, M.O., Tepper, J.E. Rectal Cancer: Can We Throw Away the Scalpel?. Ann Surg Oncol 12, 95–97 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1245/ASO.2005.11.922

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