[Correspondence] Short-course radiotherapy with delayed surgery for rectal cancer

We read the article by Johan Erlandsson and colleagues 1 with great interest, and appreciate the authors' efforts to assess clinical outcomes for intermediate-risk patients with rectal cancers. Although the authors suggest that short-course radiotherapy with delayed surgery could be an alternative to conventional short-course radiotherapy with immediate surgery based on their non-inferiority trial, we would like to point out several concerns.

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