Unresectable colorectal-carcinoma - 10 years experience with patients treated with radical or palliative external-beam radiotherapy in Greece.

Our analysis presents a group of 86 patients with unresectable colorectal cancer who were treated with radical or palliative external beam radiotherapy from 1979-1990 at the Radiation Oncology Department of Greek Anticancer Institute, St. Savvas Hospital, Athens. The dose applied to the tumor area was 20-50 Gy in 2-6 weeks.