Improved survival in patients with rectal cancer: A population-based register study

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 515-520

  Dahlberg, M ^a   Pahlman L ^a   Bergstrom R ^b   Glimelius, B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031900531     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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