Preoperative radiation with concurrent 5-fluorouracil for locally advanced T4-primary rectal cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 161-167

  Rödel, Claus ^a,c   Grabenbauer, Gerhard G ^a   Schick, Christoph ^a   Papadopoulos, Thomas ^b   Hohenberger, Werner ^a   Sauer, Rolf ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cT4 rectal cancer; Preoperative radiochemotherapy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; STOMATITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0342749389     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000660050051     Document Type: Review

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