Rapid growth of microscopic rectal cancer as a determinant of response to preoperative radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 943-951

  Suwinski, Rafal ^a,c   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^a,b   Withers, H Rodney ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dose response; Preoperative radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Subclinical disease; Tumor proliferation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS CANCER; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032428522     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(98)00343-5     Document Type: Article

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