Rectal cancer treatment and outcome in the elderly: An audit based on the Swedish rectal cancer registry 1995-2004

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jung, Bärbel ^a,b   Påhlman, Lars ^c   Johansson, Robert ^d   Nilsson, Erik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Visby County Hospital   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE; FEMALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; REGISTER; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

EID: 62649125365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-68     Document Type: Article

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