Palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy instead of surgery in symptomatic rectal cancer with synchronous unresectable metastases: A phase II study

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2829-2834

  Tyc Szczepaniak, D ^a   Wyrwicz, L ^a   Kepka, L ^a   Michalski, W ^a   Olszyna Serementa, M ^a   Palucki, J ^a   Pietrzak, L ^a   Rutkowski, A ^a   Bujko, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Palliative radiotherapy; Stage IV rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIC DISEASE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; STOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

PALLIATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; STAGE IV RECTAL CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887084514     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdt363     Document Type: Article

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