Significance of surgery in the multimodality treatment of rectal cancer

Onkologie

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 324-332

  Willeke, Frank ^a   Von Gerstenbergk Helldorf, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined modality therapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; LOMUSTINE; MITOMYCIN; TEGAFUR; URACIL; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MORBIDITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PELVIS; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036378922     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066049     Document Type: Review

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