Late complications after a combined pre and postoperative (sandwich) radiotherapy for rectal cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 177-187

  Svoboda, Vladimir ^a   Beck Bornholdt, Hans Peter ^a   Herrmann, Thomas ^b   Alberti, Winfried ^a   Jung, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications in pelvic organs; Late effects; Radiation therapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM CANCER; SKIN ULCER; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; BONE AND BONES; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0032761095     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00138-3     Document Type: Article

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