Low rates of local recurrence after surgical resection of rectal cancer suggest a selective policy for preoperative radiotherapy

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 838-843

  Senapati, A ^a   O'Leary, D P ^a   Flashman, K G ^a   Parvaiz, A ^a   Thompson, M R ^a  

^a QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local recurrence; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPERINEUM EXCISION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CURATIVE ANTERIOR RECTUM RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; STOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; CARCINOMA; COLOSTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84862124005     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2011.02827.x     Document Type: Article

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