RT for the management of locally advanced rectal cancer: Don't throw the baby with the bath water!

Affiliations

• ¹ Advanced Radiation Oncology Department IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital Cancer Care Center Negrar di Valpolicella Italy. Electronic address: lucanicosia.rg@gmail.com.
• ² Radiation Oncology Department ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia - Brescia University Brescia Italy.
• ³ Department of Radiation Oncology, "Sapienza" University, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035-1039 00189 Rome, Italy.
• ⁴ Clinical Analysis Laboratory and Transfusional Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, IRCCS-Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy.
• ⁵ Radiation Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
• ⁶ Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont and University Hospital "Maggiore della Carità", Novara, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Radiation Oncology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen-Marburg University Hospital, Giessen, Germany.
• ⁸ UOC di Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Institute, Imam-Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Radiation Oncology Research Center (RORC), Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ¹⁰ Radiotherapy Unit ULSS5, Rovigo, Italy.
• ¹¹ Radiation Oncology, Policlinico Umberto I, Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ¹² Radiotherapy Unit, San Martino Hospital, Belluno, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Radiation Therapy, Centre Eugène Marquis, Rennes, France.
• ¹⁴ Radiation Oncology Section, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia and Perugia General Hospital 06129 Perugia, Italy.
• ¹⁵ University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Advanced Radiation Oncology Department IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital Cancer Care Center Negrar di Valpolicella Italy; University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.