Rectal cancers in the elderly - Lessons learned

Cancer Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-22

  Kichenadasse, Ganessan ^a   Townsend, Amanda ^a   Price, Timothy ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ELDERLY CARE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ONCOLOGY WARD; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; RECTUM CANCER; SEPSIS; STROKE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 42149157139     PISSN: 0311306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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