The quality-of-life effects of neoadjuvant chemoradiation in locally advanced rectal cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Herman, Joseph M ^a   Narang, Amol K ^a   Griffith, Kent A ^b   Zalupski, Mark M ^b   Reese, Jennifer B ^a   Gearhart, Susan L ^a   Azad, Nolifer S ^a   Chan, June ^b   Olsen, Leah ^b   Efron, Jonathan E ^a   Lawrence, Theodore S ^b   Ben Josef, Edgar ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTER-TREATMENT; FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS; NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL CANCER; TREATMENT MODALITY;

DISEASES; SURVEYS; TOXICITY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

CAPECITABINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE C30 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUALITY OF LIFE CR29 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUALITY OF LIFE CR38 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY FREQUENCY; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URINATION DISORDERS; VOMITING;

EID: 84871372971     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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