Preoperative radiochemotherapy in locally advanced or recurrent rectal cancer: Regional radiofrequency hyperthermia correlates with clinical parameters

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 381-391

  Rau, B ^a   Wust, P ^a,b   Tilly, W ^a   Gellermann, J ^a   Harder, C ^a   Riess, H ^a   Budach, V ^a   Felix, R ^a   Schlag, P M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radiochemotherapy; Rectal cancer; Regional hyperthermia; Thermometry

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RECTUM CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; THERMOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033832478     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00650-7     Document Type: Article

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