Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy for rectal cancer: Results from NSABP protocol r-01

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 21-29

  Fisher, Bernard ^a   Wolmark, Norman ^a   Rockette, Howard ^a   Redmond, Carol ^a   Deutsch, Melvin ^a   Wickerham, D Lawrence ^a   Fisher, Edwin R ^a   Caplan, Richard ^a   Jones, Judith ^a   Lerner, Harvey ^b   Gordon, Philip ^b   Feldman, Merrill ^b   Cruz, Anatolio ^b   Legault poisson, Sandra ^b   Wexler, Marvin ^b   Lawrence, Walter ^b   Robidoux, Andre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; SEMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEMUSTINE; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0023836214     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/80.1.21     Document Type: Article

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