Clinically-staged T3N0 rectal cancer: Is preoperative chemoradiotherapy the optimal treatment?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 838-845

  Lombardi, Raffaele ^a   Cuicchi, Dajana ^a   Pinto, Carmine ^a   Di Fabio, Francesca ^a   Iacopino, Bruno ^a   Neri, Stefano ^a   Tardio, Maria Lucia ^a   Ceccarelli, Claudio ^a   Lecce, Ferdinando ^a   Ugolini, Giampaolo ^a   Pini, Sara ^a   Di Tullio, Piergiorgio ^a   Taffurelli, Mario ^a   Minni, Francesco ^a   Martoni, Andrea ^a   Cola, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; IOMEPROL; OXALIPLATIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77149132748     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0796-7     Document Type: Article

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