Preoperative short-term radiation therapy (25 Gy, 2.5 Gy twice daily) for primary resectable rectal cancer (phase II)

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1209-1214

  Widder, J ^a   Herbst, F ^a   Dobrowsky, W ^b   Schmid, R ^a   Pokrajac, B ^a   Jech, B ^a   Chiari, C ^a   Stift, A ^a   Maier, A ^a   Karner Hanusch, J ^a   Teleky, B ^a   Wrba, F ^a   Jakesz, R ^a   Poetter, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bowel function; Rectal cancer; Rectal carcinoma; Short term preoperative radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIC DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20944439836     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602485     Document Type: Article

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