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Questionable role of adjuvant chemotherapy in rectal cancer patients who had reached pathological complete response after neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy: no matter in the East or in the West

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Acknowledgments

The data analyzed in this study were provided by the Collaboration Centre for Health Information Application (CCHIA), Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. We thanked the Health and welfare surcharge of tobacco products, China Medical University Hospital Cancer Research Center of Excellence (MOHW103-TD-B-111-03, Taiwan), for their financial support. The authors—not the CCHIA or the funding body—had full control of the design of the study, methods used, outcome parameters and results, analysis of data and production of the written report.

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  1. Department of Colorectal Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    William Tzu-Liang Chen & Tao-Wei Ke

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chia-Chin Li & Chun-Ru Chien

  3. School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, No. 91 Hsueh-Shih Road, North District, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan

    William Tzu-Liang Chen & Chun-Ru Chien

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William Tzu-Liang Chen, Tao-Wei Ke and Chia-Chin Li have equally contributed to this work.

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Chen, W.TL., Ke, TW., Li, CC. et al. Questionable role of adjuvant chemotherapy in rectal cancer patients who had reached pathological complete response after neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy: no matter in the East or in the West. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 140, 1495–1496 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-014-1749-5

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