The role of carcinoembryonic antigen after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-252

  Jang, Na Young ^a   Kang, Sung Bum ^a   Kim, Duck Woo ^a   Kim, Jee Hyun ^a   Lee, Keun Wook ^a   Kim, In Ah ^a   Kim, Jae Sung ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carcinoembryonic antigen; Neoadjuvant chemoradiation; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAPECITABINE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CETUXIMAB; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; TEGAFUR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGRESSION; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINEUM; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78651399828     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181fcee68     Document Type: Article

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