Prognostic implications of the distribution of lymph node metastases in rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2106-2111

  Leibold, Tobias ^a   Shia, Jinru ^a   Ruo, Leyo ^a   Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Akhurst, Timothy ^a   Gollub, Marc J ^a   Ginsberg, Michelle S ^a   Larson, Steven ^a   Riedel, Elyn ^a   Wong, W Douglas ^a   Guillem, José G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43749116192     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.12.7704     Document Type: Article

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