30 Gy may be an adequate dose in patients with anal cancer treated with excisional biopsy followed by combined-modality therapy

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 71-77

  Hu, Kenneth ^a   Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Cohen, Alfred M ^a   Kelsen, David P ^a   Guillem, Jose C ^a   Paty, Philip P ^a   Quan, Stuart H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal cancer; Combined modality therapy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033008466     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199902)70:2<71::AID-JSO2>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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