Current evidence does not support routine adjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 835-840

  Meagher, Alan P ^a,b   Ward, Robyn L ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT'S CLINIC   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SARCOMA; SEPSIS; SKIN TOXICITY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036436332     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02543.x     Document Type: Review

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