Combined-modality therapy in locally advanced primary rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-67

  Ratto, Carlo ^a   Valentini, Vincenzo ^a   Morganti, Alessio G ^a   Barbaro, Brunella ^a   Coco, Claudio ^a   Sofo, Luigi ^a   Balducci, Mario ^a   Gentile, Pier C ^a   Pacelli, Fabio ^a   Doglietto, Giovanni B ^a   Picciocchi, Aurelio ^a   Cellini, Numa ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Combined therapies; Continuous infusion; External radiation therapy; Intraoperative radiotherapy; Locally advanced rectal cancers; Mitomycin C; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037240490     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-6497-1     Document Type: Article

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