Preoperative chemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: Systematic review of literature;Chemioterapia preoperatoria nelle neoplasie del retto localmente avanzate

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 134-140

  Tamburini, Emiliano ^a,b   Tassinari, Davide ^a   Papi, Maximilian ^a   Nicoletti, Stefania ^a   Fantini, Manuela ^a   Ravaioli, Alberto ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Neoadjuvant therapy; Radiotherapy; Rectal neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42249099848     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: 00341193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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