Could a wait and see policy be justified in T3/4 rectal cancers after chemo-radiotherapy?

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 378-381

  Hughes, Robert ^a   Harrison, Mark ^a   Glynne Jones, Robert ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS; POLICY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMORBIDITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951272418     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841860903483692     Document Type: Article

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