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From: Impact of glucocorticoids on the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and survival of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: a retrospective study

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Multivariable Cox analysis of Overall Survival. a Multivariable Cox analysis of overall survival including all clinical pathological characteristics. b Multivariable Cox analysis of overall survival with the stepwise forward procedure of variables selection on the basis of the likelihood ratio statistic. c The graph of hazard rate of accumulated dose of GCs for death against its value adjusted by tumor location and ypTNM. Abbreviations: GCs, glucocorticoids; CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen; CA19-9, carbohydrate antigen 19–9; NCRT, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy; CCT, concurrent chemotherapy; SIB, simultaneous integrated boost; GTV, gross tumor volume; ypTNM, yield pathological tumor node metastasis stage

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