Multidisciplinary Management of Resectable Rectal Cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1701-1714

  Minsky, Bruce D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM TUMOR; REVIEW;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030276905     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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