Radiotherapy, concomitant protracted-venous-infusion 5-fluorouracil, and surgery for ultrasound-staged T3 or T4 rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 52-58

  Mehta, V K ^a   Poen, J ^a   Ford, J ^b   Edelstein, P S ^b   Vierra, M ^b   Bastidas, A J ^b   Young, H ^a   Fisher, G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Orthopedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Chemoradiotherapy; Neoadjuvant; Preoperative; Protracted venous infusion; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035143630     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02234821     Document Type: Article

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