Use of brachytherapy in management of locally recurrent rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1177-1179

  Goes, Ricardo N ^a,d   Beart Jr , Robert W ^a,f   Simons, Anthony J ^a   Gunderson, Leonard L ^b   Grado, Gordon ^c,e   Streeter, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e Center for Radiation Therapy Scottsdale   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Radiation therapy; Rectal cancer; Recurrent rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030873944     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02055163     Document Type: Article

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