Radiotherapy: Preoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 129-130

  Rödel, Claus ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77749277627     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2010.10     Document Type: Short Survey

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