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Radiotherapy has an important role to play when used in addition to surgery in primary and recurrent rectal cancer. In primary resectable rectal cancer, a large number of randomized trials have shown that preoperative radiotherapy can slightly improve survival and can decrease local recurrence rates by more than half. Postoperative radiotherapy may also decrease the risk of local failure although...