Should locally excised T1 rectal cancer receive adjuvant chemoradiation?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 402-406

  Lamont, Jeffrey P ^a   McCarty, Todd M ^a   Digan, Rick D ^a   Jacobson, Robert ^a   Tulanon, Paitoon ^a   Lichliter, Warren E ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Sammons Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034467494     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00493-1     Document Type: Article

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