Preoperative adjuvant radiation with chemotherapy for rectal cancer: Its impact on stage of disease and the role of endorectal ultrasound

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-135

  Bernini, Andrea ^a   Deen, Kemal I ^a   Madoff, Robert D ^a   Wong, W Douglas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endorectal ultrasound; Preoperative adjuvant chemotherapy; Preoperative adjuvant radiation; Rectal cancer; Stage

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 0030099404     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02305791     Document Type: Article

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