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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After preoperative radiotherapy the percentage of aneuploid tumours decreased significantly, from 71% to 47%.
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In two randomised prospective studies, however, no advantage of preoperative radiation therapy could be shown.
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Rigorous control procedures established that it was neither an artefact of nutritional compromise nor of preoperative bowel preparatory protocols.
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Survival of patients was not improved by preoperative radiotherapy, but was significantly associated with a radical tumour resection.
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Talking with professionals involved in your care can soothe preoperative jitters.
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The preoperative radiotherapy did not result in a significant prolongation of survival time.
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These univariate survival analyses were also separately performed for the group of patients with preoperative radiotherapy and the group with surgery only.
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This also applied to the subgroup with a curative tumour resection and is in accordance with other studies that used preoperative radiotherapy.