Comparative quality of life in patients following abdominoperineal excision and low anterior resection for low rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 400-406

  How, P ^a   Stelzner, S ^b   Branagan, G ^c   Bundy, K ^d   Chandrakumaran, K ^e   Heald, R J ^a   Moran, B ^e  

^a PELICAN CANCER FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

^c SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BASINGSTOKE AND NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Quality of life; Rectum; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; OXALIPLATIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COGNITION; COLOPLAST STOMA QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EUROPE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QLQ C30; QLQ CR38; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SAMPLE SIZE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROCTOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859745371     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e3182444fd1     Document Type: Article

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