Local therapy for rectal cancer: Still controversial?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 523-533

  Bretagnol, F ^a,b,c   Rullier, E ^b   George, B ^a   Warren, B F ^a   Mortensen, N J ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

^c SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Local therapy; Neoadjuvant treatment; Rectal cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247859098     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0819-4     Document Type: Article

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