Preoperative hyperthermia combined with radiochemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: A phase II clinical trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 380-389

  Rau, Beate ^b   Wust, Peter ^b   Hohenberger, Peter ^b   Löffel, Juergen ^b   Hünerbein, Michael ^b   Below, Cathlen ^b   Gellermann, Johanna ^b   Speidel, Andrea ^b   Vogl, Thomas ^b   Riess, Hanno ^b   Felix, Roland ^b   Schlag, Peter M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031888677     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199803000-00010     Document Type: Article

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