Are we overtreating some patients with rectal cancer?

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1789-1796

  Rothenberger, David A ^a   Akbari, Robert ^a   Baxter, Nancy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COLON POLYP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM TUMOR; REVIEW; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLONIC POLYPS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 16244423689     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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