Radiation and chemotherapy instead of surgery for low infiltrative rectal adenocarcinoma: A prospective trial

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-118

  Rossi, Benedito M ^a   Nakagawa, Wilson T ^a   Novaes, Paulo E ^a   Waldec Filho, D J ^a   Lopes, Ademar ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Chemotherapy; Radiation therapy; Rectal adenocarcinoma; Sphincter sparing

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; LEVAMISOLE;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; VOMITING;

ABDOMEN; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANAL CANAL; ANTIDOTES; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRACHYTHERAPY; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LEUCOVORIN; LEVAMISOLE; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERITONEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0032429876     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303843     Document Type: Article

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