Preoperative radiotherapy improves survival for patients undergoing total mesorectal excision for stage T3 low rectal cancers

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 203-207

  Delaney, Conor P ^a   Lavery, Ian C ^a   Brenner, Antonio ^a   Hammel, Jeffrey ^a   Senagore, Anthony J ^a   Noone, Robert B ^a   Fazio, Victor W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036328677     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200208000-00008     Document Type: Article

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