Quality assurance in the EORTC 22921 trial on preoperative radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy for resectable rectal cancer: Evaluation of the individual case review procedure

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1849-1856

  Kouloulias, Vassilis E ^a   Bosset, Jean Francois ^b   Van Tienhoven, Geertjan ^c   Davis, Bernard J ^d   Pierart, Marianne ^a   Poortmans, Philip ^e  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EORTC phase III trial; Individual case review; Quality assurance; Radio chemotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036710275     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(02)00174-0     Document Type: Article

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