# OnCo record paper-swedish-rectal-cancer-trial-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-1997 (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-swedish-rectal-cancer-trial-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-1997" ;
  schema:name "Improved survival with preoperative radiotherapy in resectable rectal cancer (Swedish Rectal Cancer Trial)"@en ;
  schema:description "Five days of radiotherapy before the operation more than halved the chance of the cancer coming back in the pelvis, and was the first rectal cancer trial to show that radiotherapy also helps people live longer."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-swedish-rectal-cancer-trial-preoperative-radiotherapy-nejm-1997/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199704033361402>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9091798/> ;
  onco:tag "colorectal-evidence" ;
  schema:sameAs <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199704033361402> ;
  schema:datePublished "1997"^^xsd:gYear ;
  schema:author "Swedish Rectal Cancer Trial, Cedermark B, Dahlberg M, et al." ;
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