Preoperative radiotherapy of advanced rectal cancer with capecitabine and oxaliplatin with or without cetuximab: A pooled analysis of three prospective phase I-II trials.

  • Christian Weiss
  • Dirk Arnold
  • Kathrin Dellas
  • Torsten Liersch
  • Matthias Hipp
  • Rainer Fietkau
  • Rolf Sauer
  • Axel Hinke
  • Claus Rödel

Abstract

A pooled analysis of three prospective trials of preoperative radiochemotherapy (RCT) for rectal cancer by using oxaliplatin and capecitabine with or without cetuximab was performed to evaluate the impact of additional cetuximab on pathologic complete response (pCR) rates and tumor regression (TRG) grades.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number2
ISSN0360-3016
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 20133081