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Adjuvant therapy of gastrointestinal carcinoma

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Due to the fairly dismal prognosis often associated with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, chemotherapy as an adjuvant to surgery was a logical development for high-risk patients likely to develop recurrence. It was thought merely necessary to await the availability of compounds that showed reasonable effectiveness against such cancers. Regrettably the wait has been a long one and, to a large extent, still prevails.

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    D. W. Jirsch (Consultant General Surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery) (Consultant General Surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery)

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Ansfield, F.J., Ramirez, G. (1982). Adjuvant therapy of gastrointestinal carcinoma. In: Jirsch, D.W. (eds) Frontiers in General Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6642-3_5

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