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ASO Author Reflections: From Overtreatment to Risk-Adjusted Therapy of Rectal Carcinoma

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ASO Author Reflections offer a brief invited commentary on the article, “MRI-Based Use of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Rectal Carcinoma: Surgical Quality and Histopathological Outcome of the OCUM Trial,” Ann Surg Oncol. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07696-y.

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Junginger, T. ASO Author Reflections: From Overtreatment to Risk-Adjusted Therapy of Rectal Carcinoma. Ann Surg Oncol 27, 428–429 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07991-8

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