Assessing the effectiveness of a guideline recommendation for pre-operative radiochemotherapy in rectal cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-147

  Manchon Walsh, Paula ^a,b,c   Borras, Josep Maria ^a,b,c   Espinas, Josep Alfons ^a,b   Aliste, Luisa ^a,b  

^a Oncologist Director Plan of Catalonia   (Spain)

^b BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Population based; Quality assessment; Radiochemotherapy; Rectal cancer; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79958113622     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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