Intense local therapy in primary rectal cancer: Multi-institutional results with preoperative chemo-radiation therapy plus IORT

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 196-199

  Azinovic, Ignacio ^a   Calvo, Felipe A ^b   Santos, Manuel ^c   Aristu, Javier ^a   Martínez Monge, Rafael ^a   Ortíz De Urbina, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c Instituto Madrileno de Oncologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030630582     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061165     Document Type: Article

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