Palliative radiotherapy in patients with a symptomatic pelvic mass of metastatic colorectal cancer

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bae, Sun Hyun ^a   Park, Won ^a   Choi, Doo Ho ^a   Nam, Heerim ^a   Kang, Won Ki ^a   Park, Young Suk ^a   Park, Joon Oh ^a   Chun, Ho Kyung ^a   Lee, Woo Yong ^a   Yun, Seong Hyeon ^a   Kim, Hee Cheol ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Concurrent chemoradiotherapy; Metastatic colorectal cancer; Pelvic recurrencepalliative radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; LAXATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; LIVER; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTRUCTION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS TUMOR; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956212569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-52     Document Type: Article

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