Long-term prognostic significance of extent of rectal cancer response to preoperative radiation and chemotherapy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-81

  Ruo, Leyo ^a   Tickoo, Satish ^a   Klimstra, David S ^a   Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Saltz, Leonard ^a   Mazumdar, Madhu ^a   Paty, Philip B ^a   Wong, W Douglas ^a   Larson, Steven M ^a   Cohen, Alfred M ^a   Guillem, Jose G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLECTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036295040     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200207000-00012     Document Type: Article

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