Result of the implementation of multidisciplinary teams in rectal cancer

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 410-413

  Wille Jorgensen P ^a   Sparre, P ^a   Glenthoj A ^a   Holck, S ^b   Norgaard Petersen L ^c   Harling, H ^a   Stub Hojen H ^b   Bulow S ^b  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Multidisciplinary teams; Preoperative evaluation; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DENMARK; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875668030     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12013     Document Type: Article

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