Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 745-754

  Vauthey, Jean Nicolas ^a,d   De Marsh, Robert W ^b   Zlotecki, Robert A ^b   Abdalla, Eddie K ^a   Solorzano, Carmen C ^a   Bray, Elizabeth J ^a   Freeman, Mark E ^a   Lauwers, Gregory Y ^b   Kubilis, Paul S ^c   Mendenhall, William M ^b   Copeland III, Edward M ^a  

^a College of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Clinical and Health Psychology   (United States)

^c Box 106 ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17144458532     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199905000-00018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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