Neoadjuvant treatment of rectal carcinoma: Assessment of health care services by physicians and lay persons

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 4866-4868

  Kornmann, Marko ^a   Henne Bruns, Doris ^a   Porzsolt, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; VOLUNTARY WORKER; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; RECTUM TUMOR; STATISTICS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54449086736     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.2891     Document Type: Note

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