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Rationale for Perioperative Anticancer Treatment

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Perioperative Chemotherapy

Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research ((RECENTCANCER,volume 98))

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I will limit my discussion essentially to chemotherapy as an adjuvant to surgery, since my experience is in this field, but I recognize that radiation therapy could be substituted for surgery in many cases and also that there are clinical examples of all three modalities being used in proper sequences with improved results over any two-modality treatment. I would like to begin with a brief discussion of the need for perioperative chemotherapy.

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  1. Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL, 35255, USA

    F. M. Schabel Jr.

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  1. Chirurgische Onkologie Departement Chirurgie, Universitätsklinik, 8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    Urs Metzger

  2. Departement Chirurgie, Universitätsklinik, 8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    Felix Largiadèr

  3. Medizinische Klinik C, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, 9007, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Hans-Jörg Senn

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Schabel, F.M. (1985). Rationale for Perioperative Anticancer Treatment. In: Metzger, U., Largiadèr, F., Senn, HJ. (eds) Perioperative Chemotherapy. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 98. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82432-6_1

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