Multidisciplinary treatment of colorectal cancer in New Zealand: Survival rates from 1997-2002

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1242, 2006, Pages

  Keating, John P ^a   Yong, David ^b   Cutler, Glenda ^a   Johnston, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CRYOTHERAPY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NEW ZEALAND; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749360276     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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