Adjuvant radiotherapy on older and oldest elderly rectal cancer patients

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-59

  Fiorica, F ^a   Cartei, F ^a   Carau, B ^a   Berretta, S ^b   Sparta D ^b   Tirelli, U ^c   Santangelo, A ^b   Maugeri, D ^b   Luca, S ^b   Leotta, C ^b   Sorace, R ^b   Berretta, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co morbidities with rectal cancer; Elderly patients; Radiotherapy of rectal cancer; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SKIN DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 67349130160     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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