The COVID-19 pandemic has enabled researchers to show that a long course of radiotherapy given before surgery may be a better treatment for avoiding surgery, preserving the rectum and anus, and preventing regrowth of the primary tumor than a short course of radiotherapy for patients with rectal cancer—a type of bowel cancer. However, the overall survival and survival free of recurrence of the disease remained the same for both treatments.
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