Preoperative short-course radiotherapy and long-course radiochemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: Meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis of long-term survival data

• Xin Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wang, Bobo Zheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5585-073X

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• Bobo Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wang, Bobo Zheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Xinlan Lu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation

  * E-mail: heshuixiang2017@yeah.net(SXH); luneworchid@126.com(XLL)

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Ruhai Bai,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Linlin Feng,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Imaging Center, Northwest Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Quan Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Digestive Disease Hospital, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

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• Yan Zhao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Shuixiang He

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: heshuixiang2017@yeah.net(SXH); luneworchid@126.com(XLL)

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1832-1000

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