Incidence and clinical impact of sterilized disease and minimal residual disease after preoperative radiochemotherapy for rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1851-1857

  Gavioli, Margherita ^a   Luppi, Gabriele ^b   Losi, Lorena ^b   Bertolini, Federica ^b   Santantonio, Mario ^b   Falchi, Anna Maria ^b   D'Amico, Roberto ^b   Conte, Pier Franco ^b   Natalini, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complete pathologic response; Downstaging; Minimal residual disease; Preoperative radiochemotherapy; Rectal cancer; Tumor regression grade

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERILIZED DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26444618717     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-005-0133-6     Document Type: Article

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