Benefit of tegafur-uracil and leucovorin in chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 58, Issue 107-108, 2011, Pages 756-762

  Ishihara, Soichiro ^a   Hayama, Tamuro ^a   Yamada, Hideki ^a   Nozawa, Keijiro ^a   Matsuda, Keiji ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Leucovorin; Rectal cancer; Surgery; Tegafurura cil

Indexed keywords

FOLINIC ACID; TEGAFUR; URACIL;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM CANCER; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TEGAFUR; URACIL;

EID: 80051624942     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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