Randomized controlled trial to evaluate laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: Japan clinical oncology group study JCOG 0404

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 475-477

  Kitano, Seigo ^a   Inomata, Masafumi ^a   Sato, Akihiro ^b   Yoshimura, Kenichi ^c   Moriya, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Laparoscopic surgery; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSVERSE COLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24944573186     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyi124     Document Type: Article

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