Tumor downstaging and sphincter preservation with preoperative chemoradiation in locally advanced rectal cancer: The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1027-1038

  Janjan, Nora A ^a   Khoo, Vincent S ^a   Abbruzzese, James ^a   Pazdur, Richard ^a   Dubrow, Ronelle ^a   Cleary, Karen R ^a   Allen, Pamela K ^a   Lynch, Patrick M ^a   Glober, Gary ^a   Wolff, Robert ^a   Rich, Tyvin A ^a   Skibber, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032783898     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00099-1     Document Type: Article

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