# OnCo record paper-kapiteijn-dutch-tme-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-2001 (paper). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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  schema:identifier "paper-kapiteijn-dutch-tme-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-2001" ;
  schema:name "Preoperative radiotherapy combined with total mesorectal excision for resectable rectal cancer (Dutch TME trial)"@en ;
  schema:description "The trial that asked whether radiotherapy still helps once the surgery is done properly. It does for local control, cutting two-year pelvic recurrence from 8.2 to 2.4 percent, but it did not lengthen life."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-kapiteijn-dutch-tme-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-2001/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa010580>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11547717/> ;
  onco:tag "colorectal-evidence" ;
  schema:sameAs <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa010580> ;
  schema:datePublished "2001"^^xsd:gYear ;
  schema:author "Kapiteijn E, Marijnen CA, Nagtegaal ID, et al." ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-heald-mesorectum-rectal-cancer-surgery-br-j-surg-1982/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-swedish-rectal-cancer-trial-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-1997/> ;
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  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/terms/radiotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/> ;
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  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/total-mesorectal-excision/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/neoadjuvant-adjuvant/> ;
  onco:people <https://onco.cc/people/cornelis-van-de-velde/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> ;
  onco:journals <https://onco.cc/journals/nejm/> .