Preoperative radiation therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: A comparison between two different time intervals to surgery

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 507-513

  Veenhof, A A F A ^a   Kropman, R H J ^a   Engel, A F ^b   Craanen, M E ^a   Meijer, S ^a   Meijer, O W M ^a   van der Peet, D L ^a   Cuesta, M A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ZAANS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Interval; Radiation therapy; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM PERFORATION; RECTUM RESECTION; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; THERAPY DELAY; URETER INJURY;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947687645     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-006-0195-5     Document Type: Article

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