Timing of radiation therapy, lymph node retrieval, and survival in rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 526-534

  Pan, Chuan Ju G ^c   Ziogas, Argyrios ^b   Buchberg, Brian ^c   Raj, Kavitha P ^a,b,c   Mills, Steven D ^b,c   Stamos, Michael J ^b,c   Zell, Jason A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Colorectal cancer mortality; Colorectal cancer specific mortality; Lymph node retrieval; Postoperative radiotherapy; Preoperative radiotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPH NODE RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECTUM TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958018987     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31820939fb     Document Type: Article

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