Pre-operative chemoradiotherapy with oral capecitabine in locally advanced, resectable rectal cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1 B, 2007, Pages 541-545

  Korkolis, Dimitris P ^a,c   Boskos, Christos S ^a   Plataniotis, George D ^a   Gontikakis, Emmanuel ^a   Karaitianos, Ioannis J ^a   Avgerinos, Konstantinos ^b   Katopodi, Aggeliki ^a   Xinopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Dimitroulopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Beroukas, Konstantinos ^a   Vassilopoulos, Perikles P ^a  

^a SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capecitabine; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; ILEUS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRODRUGS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847747035     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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