Does preoperative radiotherapy with postoperative chemotherapy increase acute side-effects and postoperative complications of total mesorectal excision? Report of the randomized finnish rectal cancer trial

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 275-282

  Salmenkyla S ^a   Kouri, M ^a   Osterlund P ^a   Pukkala, E ^b   Luukkonen, P ^a   Hyoty M ^c   Paakkonen M ^d   Makela J ^e   Mustonen, H ^a   Jarvinen H J ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Anastomotic leakage; Postoperative complications; Preoperative radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873672793     PISSN: 14574969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/145749691210100410     Document Type: Article

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