Prognostic significance of response to preoperative radiotherapy, lymph node metastasis, and CEA level in patients undergoing total mesorectal excision of rectal cancer

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1417-1425

  Ishihara, Soichiro ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^a   Kiyomatsu, Tomomichi ^b   Yasuda, Koji ^b   Nagawa, Hirokazu ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CEA; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Surgery; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149415475     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-010-1051-1     Document Type: Article

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