Acceptance of neoadjuvant short-term radiotherapy: A survey under surgeons and radiotherapists

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 392, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 525-533

  Ulrich, Alexis ^a   Schwerdt, Jessica ^a   Z'graggen, Kaspar ^b   Kienle, Peter ^a   Weitz, Jürgen ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Klinik Beau Site   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multimodal therapy; Short term radiotherapy; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; SURGEON;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547830205     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0139-0     Document Type: Article

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