Sphincter-sparing local excision and adjuvant radiation for anal-rectal melanoma

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4555-4558

  Ballo, Matthew T ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^a   Zagars, Gunar K ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Mansfield, Paul F ^a   Strom, Eric A ^a   Bedikian, Agop Y ^a   Kim, Kevin B S ^a   Papadopoulos, Nicholas E ^a   Prieto, Victor G ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RADIATION DOSE; SCROTUM DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036896396     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2002.03.002     Document Type: Article

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