Swedish rectal cancer trial: Long lasting benefits from radiotherapy on survival and local recurrence rate

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5644-5650

  Folkesson, Joakim ^a   Birgisson, Helgi ^a   Pahlman, Lars ^a   Cedermark, Bjorn ^a   Glimelius, Bengt ^a   Gunnarsson, Ulf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; SWEDEN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM TUMOR; REGISTER; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24944534960     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.08.144     Document Type: Article

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