Two-week course of preoperative chemoradiotherapy followed by delayed surgery for rectal cancer: A phase II multi-institutional clinical trial (KROG 11-02)

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 150-154

  Lee, Jong Hoon ^a   Kim, Jun Gi ^a   Oh, Seong Taek ^a   Lee, Myung Ah ^a   Chun, Hoo Geun ^a   Kim, Dae Yong ^b   Kim, Tae Hyun ^b   Kim, Sun Young ^b   Baek, Ji Yeon ^b   Park, Ji Won ^b   Oh, Jae Hwan ^b   Park, Hee Chul ^c   Choi, Doo Ho ^c   Park, Young Suk ^c   Kim, Hee Cheol ^c   Chie, Eui Kyu ^d   Jang, Hong Seok ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Preoperative chemoradiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision; Two week course

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FLUOROURACIL;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PELVIC PAIN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM TUMOR; THERAPY DELAY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 84896086606     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.11.013     Document Type: Article

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