Selection Criteria for Treatment of Rectal Cancer with Combined External and Endocavitary Radiation

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 733-735

  Stocchi, Luca ^a   Nelson, Heidi ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033064382     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02236927     Document Type: Article

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