Preoperative radiotherapy with or without concurrent fluorouracil and leucovorin in T3-4 rectal cancers: Results of FFCD 9203

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 4620-4625

  Gérard, Jean Pierre ^a   Conroy, Thierry ^b   Bonnetain, Franck ^b   Bouché, Olivier ^b   Chapet, Olivier ^b   Closon Dejardin, Marie Thérèse ^b   Untereiner, Michel ^b   Leduc, Bernard ^b   Francois, Éric ^b   Maurel, Jean ^b   Seitz, Jean François ^b   Buecher, Bruno ^b   Mackiewicz, Rémy ^b   Ducreux, Michel ^b   Bedenne, Laurent ^b  

^a CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PELVIS ABSCESS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; ADENOCARCINOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 33750580102     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.7629     Document Type: Article

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