conjunction with preoperative chemoradiation for patients with locally advanced rectal
cancer in a double blind randomized phase II study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-
five patients of the initially planned 80 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer were
treated with preoperative radiation (45Gy; 1.8 Gy/fraction, 5days/week) combined with 5-
fluorouracil (continuous infusion, 225mg/m2/day) and celecoxib (2× 400mg/day) or placebo …