Long-term outcomes in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with preoperative chemoradiation followed by curative surgical resection

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 659-666

  Lim, Seok Byung ^a   Yu, Chang Sik ^a   Hong, Yong Sang ^a   Kim, Tae Won ^a   Kim, Jong Hoon ^a   Kim, Jin Cheon ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

preoperative chemoradiotherapy; prognosis; rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; UFT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEUM INJURY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHINCTER; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867849058     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23181     Document Type: Article

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