Radiotherapy among nonagenarians with anal or rectal carcinoma: should we avoid or adapt treatment?

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Authors’ contributions NM, CC, PA, AA, and CR conceived the study and participated in its design and coordination. AV, CR, JBG, and ATF performed the data acquisition. AV, CR, JBG, and ATF interpreted the data. NM, CR, and AV drafted the manuscript. NM reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Availability of data and materials The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Consent for publication Not applicable. Ethics approval and consent to participate All participating institutions obtained Institutional Review Board approval to conduct the study. Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.