Adjuvant radio-chemotherapy in radically resected high risk rectal cancer, Preliminary results of a prospective trial;Radio-chemioterapia adiuvante nel cancro del retto radicalmente operato e con alto rischio di ricaduta: Risultati preliminari di uno studio prospettico

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 86-92

  Lupattelli, Marco ^a,g   Maranzano, Ernesto ^a   Trancanelli, Vittorio ^c   Belsanti, Virginio ^d   Pinaglia, Daniele ^f   Beneventi, Sara ^e   Latini, Paolo ^b  

^a Policlinico di Perugia   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Silvestrini   (Italy)

^d Presidio Ospedaliero Renzetti   (Italy)

^e Servizio di Fisica Sanitaria   (Italy)

^f Reparto Medicina   (Italy)

^g POLICLINICO MONTELUCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carcinoma Siage II and III Adjuvant radiotherapy Adjuvant chemotherapy; Rectum and rectosigmoid

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RECTUM CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031864632     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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