A simplified tumor regression grade correlates with survival in locally advanced rectal carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3471-3477

  Beddy, D ^a   Hyland, J M P ^a   Winter, D C ^a   Lim, C ^a   White, A ^a   Moriarty, M ^a   Armstrong, J ^a   Fennelly, D ^a   Gibbons, D ^a   Sheahan, K ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149308614     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0149-y     Document Type: Article

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