Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy in the treatment of fixed and semi-fixed rectal tumors. Analysis of results and prognostic factors

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Ferrigno, Robson ^a   dos Santos Novaes, Paulo Edwardo Ribeiro ^a   Silva, Maria Letícia Gobo ^a   Nishimoto, Ines Nobuko ^a   Nakagawa, Wilson Toshihiko ^a   Rossi, Benedito Mauro ^a   de Oliverira Ferreira, Fábio ^a   Lopes, Ademar ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750325946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-5     Document Type: Article

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