Clinical examination following preoperative chemoradiation for rectal cancer is not a reliable surrogate end point

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3475-3479

  Guillem, Jose G ^a   Chessin, David B ^a   Shia, Jinru ^a   Moore, Harvey G ^a   Mazumdar, Madhu ^a   Bernard, Bianca ^a   Paty, Philip B ^a   Saltz, Leonard ^a   Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Weiser, Martin R ^a   Temple, Larissa K F ^a   Cohen, Alfred M ^a   Douglas Wong, W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20644472455     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.06.114     Document Type: Article

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