The impact of treatment factors on local control in T2-T3 anal carcinomas treated by radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2329-2335

  Allal, Abdelkarim S ^a,b   Mermillod, Bernadette ^a   Roth, Arnaud D ^a   Marti, Marc Claude ^a   Kurtz, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anal carcinoma; Chemoradiotherapy; Radiotherapy; Sphincter conservation; Therapeutic factors

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030900132     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970615)79:12<2329::AID-CNCR6>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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