Indications for and results of combined modality treatment of colorectal cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-21

  Gunderson, Leonard L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ALOPECIA; BEAM THERAPY; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REGIONAL PERFUSION; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0032986274     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418699431753     Document Type: Review

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