Advances in the management of rectal cancer

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 587-590

  Lawes, D ^a   Boulos, P B ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APC PROTEIN; FLUOROURACIL; PROTEIN P53;

CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MASS SCREENING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOGENE K RAS; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036905075     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.95.12.587     Document Type: Review

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