Salvage abdominoperineal resection for anal cancer following chemoradiation: A proposed scoring system for predicting postoperative survival

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 486-492

  Correa, Jose Humberto S ^a   Castro, Leonaldson S ^a   Kesley, Rubens ^a   Dias, Jurandir A ^a   Jesus, Jose Paulo ^a   Olivatto, Luiz O ^a   Martins, Ivanir O ^a   Lopasso, Fabio P ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

conservative treatment; outcome; pathological scoring system; squamous cell carcinoma of the anus; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGICAL RISK SCORE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERINEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 84875234523     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23283     Document Type: Review

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