Is postoperative radiotherapy useful for the rectal carcinoma in the era of total mesorectal excision?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 44, 2002, Pages 399-403

  Kwang, Wook Suh ^a   Bong, Wan Kim ^a   Chun, Mison ^a   Ho, Young Lim ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Postoperative radiation therapy; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMAN; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

EID: 0036273192     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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