Importance of tumor regression assessment in predicting the outcome in patients with locally advanced rectal carcinoma who are treated with preoperative radiotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1121-1130

  Bouzourene, Hanifa ^a,b   Bosman, Fred T ^a   Seelentag, Walter ^a   Matter, Maurice ^a   Coucke, Philippe ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Locally advanced colorectal carcinoma; Preoperative radiotherapy; Survival; Tumor regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037083343     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10327     Document Type: Article

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