Interim analysis of the Stockholm III trial of preoperative radiotherapy regimens for rectal cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 580-587

  Pettersson, D ^a   Cederniark, B ^a   Holm, T ^a   Radu, C ^b   Pahhnan, L ^c   Glimelius, B ^a,b   Martling, A ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM TUMOR; REOPERATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949413228     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6914     Document Type: Article

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