Enhancement of radiation-induced downstaging of rectal cancer by fluorouracil and high-dose leucovorin chemotherapy

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 79-84

  Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Cohen, Alfred M ^b   Kemeny, Nancy ^b   Enker, Warren E ^b   Kelsen, David P ^b   Reichman, Bonnie ^b   Saltz, Leonard ^b   Sigurdson, Elin R ^b   Frankel, Joanne ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM CANCER; TENESMUS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMAN; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0026558968     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1992.10.1.79     Document Type: Article

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