Adjuvant radiotherapy following total mesorectal excision for stage IIA rectal cancer: Is it beneficial?

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1103-1110

  Kim, Jin Soo ^a   Kim, Nam Kyu ^b   Min, Byung Soh ^b   Hur, Hyuk ^b   Ahn, Joong Bae ^b   Keum, Ki Chang ^b  

^a Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Radiotherapy; Rectal neoplasm; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGINAL DRYNESS; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955419656     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-010-0970-1     Document Type: Article

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