Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging assessment of circumferential resection margin predicts disease-free survival and local recurrence: 5-Year follow-up results of the MERCURY Study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-43

  Taylor, Fiona G M ^a   Quirke, Philip ^c   Heald, Richard J ^e   Moran, Brendan J ^e   Blomqvist, Lennart ^g   Swift, Ian R ^a   Sebag Montefiore, David ^d   Tekkis, Paris ^f   Brown, Gina ^b  

^a MAYDAY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84894845381     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.45.3258     Document Type: Article

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