Alteration of DNA ploidy status and cell proliferation induced by preoperative radiotherapy is a prognostic factor in rectal cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3215-3221

  Lammering, Guido ^a,b   Taher, Mohiuddin M ^a   Gruenagel, Hans Helmut ^c   Borchard, Franz ^d   Porschen, Rainer ^e  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Evangelic Hospital   (Germany)

^d Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL DIVISION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROSIS; PLOIDIES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; S PHASE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033887695     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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