Preoperative radiotherapy combined with total mesorectal excision for resectable rectal cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 638-646

  Kapiteijn, Ellen ^a   Marijnen, Corrie A M ^a   Nagtegaal, Iris D ^b   Putter, Hein ^a   Steup, Willem H ^c   Wiggers, Theo ^d   Rutten, Harm J T ^e   Pahlman, Lars ^f   Glimelius, Bengt ^f   Van Krieken, J Han J M ^b   Leer, Jan W H ^b   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035975394     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa010580     Document Type: Article

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