Late patient-reported toxicity after preoperative radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy in nonresectable rectal cancer: Results from a randomized phase III study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1017-1024

  Brændengen, Morten ^a,b   Tveit, Kjell Magne ^a,c   Bruheim, Kjersti ^a   Cvancarova, Milada ^d   Berglund, Ke ^e   Glimelius, Bengt ^b,e  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy (CRT); Late toxicity; Nonresectable; Radiotherapy (RT); Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

BOWEL OBSTRUCTION; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMBINED TREATMENT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; LATE TOXICITY; NONRESECTABLE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL CANCER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

RADIOTHERAPY; SURVEYS; TOXICITY;

DISEASES;

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIQUID FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; STOMA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TOXICITY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PENILE ERECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALITY; SURGICAL STOMAS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VAGINA;

EID: 80053339365     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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