Randomized phase 3 trial comparing preoperative and postoperative chemoradiotherapy with capecitabine for locally advanced rectal cancer

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3703-3712

  Park, Jin Hong ^a   Yoon, Sang Min ^a   Yu, Chang Sik ^a   Kim, Jong Hoon ^a   Kim, Tae Won ^a   Kim, Jin Cheon ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

capecitabine; postoperative chemoradiotherapy; preoperative chemoradiotherapy; randomized controlled trial; rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANEMIA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FISTULA; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; ILEUS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS ABSCESS; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; POSTOPERATIVE CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM STENOSIS; RECTUM SURGERY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URETHRA STRICTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956288407     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25943     Document Type: Article

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