Prognostic factors for recurrence and survival in anal cancer: Generating hypotheses from the mature outcomes of the first United Kingdom Coordinating Committee on Cancer Research Anal Cancer Trial (ACT I)

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 748-755

  Glynne Jones, Robert ^a   Sebag Montefiore, David ^b   Adams, Richard ^c   Gollins, Simon ^d   Harrison, Mark ^a   Meadows, Helen M ^e   Jitlal, Mark ^e  

^a MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GLAN CLWYD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anal cancer; chemoradiation; locoregional failure; prognostic factors; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; HEMOGLOBIN; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM EXAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873411801     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27825     Document Type: Article

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