Current changes in the management and outcome of patients with curable colorectal cancer

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 300-303

  Itah, Refael ^a   Greenberg, Ron ^a   Werbin, Nachum ^a   Sacham Shmueli, Einat ^a   Inbar, Roy ^a   Avital, Shmuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Colorectal surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957644206     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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