Postoperative radiotherapy for stage IIIA rectal cancer: Is it justified?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1459-1466

  Kariv, Yehuda ^a,b   Kariv, Revital ^a,b   Hammel, Jeffrey P ^a   Lavery, Ian C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Quality of life; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Recurrence; Stage IIIA; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52649100549     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-008-9346-9     Document Type: Article

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