Preoperative chemoradiotherapy and total mesorectal excision surgery for locally advanced rectal cancer: Correlation with rectal cancer regression grade

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2025-2031

  Wheeler, J M D ^a   Dodds, E ^a   Warren, B F ^a   Cunningham, C ^a   George, B D ^a   Jones, A C ^b   McC Mortensen, N J ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Preoperative; Regression; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; INFUSION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLONIC POUCHES; COLOSTOMY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13144261728     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0713-x     Document Type: Article

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