Indications for and results of irradiation ± chemotherapy for rectal cancer

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 448-459

  Gunderson, L L ^a,b   Martenson, J A ^a   Haddock, M G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

adjuvant treatment; combined modalities; intraoperative irradiation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; SEMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, GROUP PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASSACHUSETTS; MINNESOTA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029658615     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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