Chemotherapy in the treatment of rectal cancer

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 995-1014

  Santiago, Roberto J ^a   Metz, James M ^a   Hanh, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM TUMOR; REVIEW; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STANDARD; STOMATITIS; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; LEVAMISOLE; MITOMYCIN C; SEMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0036701042     PISSN: 08898588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8588(02)00037-0     Document Type: Review

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