Reuters
The new finding, published in The New England Journal of Medicine (news - web sites), could translate into less suffering for people with rectal cancer, which affects about 42,000 people in the U.S. each year. Traditionally, doctors have performed surgery first.
"Preoperative chemoradiotherapy is the preferred treatment for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer," said a team led by Rolf Sauer of the University of Erlangen in Germany.
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