Distal rectal cancer: Sphincter-sparing is also a challenge for the radiation oncologist

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Bosset, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ANUS SPHINCTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EDITORIAL; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SELF REPORT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANAL CANAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746941733     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.06.008     Document Type: Editorial

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