Preoperative radiation with concurrent 5-fluorouracil continuous infusion for locally advanced unresectable rectal cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 319-324

  Videtic, Gregory M M ^a   Fisher, Barbara J ^a,b   Perera, Francisco E ^a   Bauman, Glenn S ^a   Kocha, Walter I ^a   Taylor, Marianne ^a   Vincent, Mark D ^a   Plewes, E A ^a   Engel, C Jay ^a   Stitt, Larry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSURIA; ERYTHEMA; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; METASTASIS; NAUSEA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; STOMATITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032170172     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(98)00214-4     Document Type: Article

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