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In 1974, Turnbull wrote that “a new era was dawning for rectal cancer, the era of small highly curable cancers”. He pointed out that surgeons were seeing an increasing number of patients with very small mobile cancers, which “could be treated without recourse to radical surgery”.
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Papillon, J. (1982). Rationale of Conservative Treatment for Cure. In: Rectal and Anal Cancers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68613-9_5
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