Palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy instead of surgery in symptomatic rectal cancer with synchronous unresectable metastases: a phase II study.

D. Tyc-Szczepaniak1, L. Wyrwicz2, L. Kepka1, W. Michalski3, M. Olszyna-Serementa1, J. Palucki4, L. Pietrzak1, A. Rutkowski5 & K. Bujko1* Department of Radiotherapy; Clinical Oncology Division of Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology; Departments of Clinical Trials and Biostatistics Unit; Radiology; Surgical Division of Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre, Warsaw, Poland