A clinical trial to evaluate the worth of preoperative multimodality therapy in patients with operable carcinoma of the rectum: A progress report of National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol R-03

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-139

  Hyams, David M ^a,e   Mamounas, Eleftherios P ^a   Petrelli, Nicholas ^d   Rockette, Howard ^b   Jones, Judy ^b   Wieand, H Sam ^b   Deutsch, Melvin ^c   Wickerham, D Lawrence ^a   Fisher, Bernard ^a   Wolmark, Norman ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NSABP Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Colorectal neoplasms; Combined modality therapy; Drug therapy; Radiotherapy; Rectal neoplasms; Surgery

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 8044239624     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02054976     Document Type: Article

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