Preoperative short-course concurrent chemoradiation therapy followed by delayed surgery for locally advanced rectal cancer: A phase 2 multicenter study (KROG 10-01)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-39

  Yeo, Seung Gu ^a,b   Oh, Jae Hwan ^a   Kim, Dae Yong ^a   Baek, Ji Yeon ^a   Kim, Sun Young ^a   Park, Ji Won ^a   Kim, Min Ju ^a   Chang, Hee Jin ^a   Kim, Tae Hyun ^a   Lee, Jong Hoon ^c   Jang, Hong Seok ^c   Kim, Jun Gi ^c   Lee, Myung Ah ^c   Nam, Taek Keun ^d  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT CHEMORADIATION; CONCURRENT CHEMOTHERAPY; LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCERS; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PATHOLOGIC COMPLETE RESPONSE; PATHOLOGIC DOWNSTAGING; TUMOR REGRESSION GRADES; TUMOR VOLUME REDUCTION RATES;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; TOXICITY; TUMORS;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY;

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; DIARRHEA; FEVER; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; ILEUS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; NEUTROPENIA; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION HAZARD; RECTUM CANCER; STOMATITIS; THERAPY DELAY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876127846     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.11.018     Document Type: Article

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