Preoperative or postoperative irradiation in adenocarcinoma of the rectum: Final treatment results of a randomized trial and an evaluation of late secondary effects

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 564-572

  Frykholm, Gunilla Jansson ^a   Glimelius, Bengt ^a   Påhlman, Lars ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Local recurrence rate; Radiotherapy; Rectal carcinoma; Side effects to treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENCE RISK; SKIN ULCER; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027286612     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02049863     Document Type: Article

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