Reply to: The impact of circumferential tumor location on the clinical outcomes of rectal cancers receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery-does is really matter?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Pathology, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: chipan363@163.com.

Comment

Xiaojie Wang et al. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;46(12):2341-2342.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2020.07.024. Epub 2020 Jul 29.

¹ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Pathology, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: chipan363@163.com.

No abstract available

Keywords: Circumferential tumor location; Locally advanced rectal cancer; Pathological complete response.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest None of the authors has any potential conflict of interest related to this manuscript.

The impact of circumferential tumour location on the clinical outcome of rectal cancer patients managed with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by total mesorectal excision.
Wang X, Chen G, Zhang Y, Ghareeb WM, Yu Q, Zhu H, Lu X, Huang Y, Huang S, Hou D, Chi P. Wang X, et al. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2020 Jun;46(6):1118-1123. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2020.02.034. Epub 2020 Feb 22. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2020. PMID: 32113887
The impact of circumferential tumor location on the clinical outcomes of rectal cancers receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery-does it really matter?
Pandey D, Rohila J, Sukumar V, Saklani A. Pandey D, et al. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2020 Dec;46(12):2339-2340. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2020.07.023. Epub 2020 Jul 28. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2020. PMID: 32771250 No abstract available.