Follow-up of colorectal cancer patients after resection with curative intent - The GILDA trial

Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 119-124

  Grossmann, Erik M ^a   Johnson, Frank E ^a   Virgo, Katherine S ^a   Longo, Walter E ^b   Fossati, Rolando ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Follow up; Rectal cancer; Recurrence; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 9644283099     PISSN: 09607404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suronc.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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