MR Volumetric Measurement of Low Rectal Cancer Helps Predict Tumor Response and Outcome after Combined Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy

Nougaret, Stéphanie; Rouanet, Philippe; Molinari, Nicolas; Ange Pierredon, Marie; Bibeau, Frédéric; Azria, D.; Lemanski, C.; Assénat, Eric; Duffour, Jacqueline; Ychou, Marc; Reinhold, Caroline; Gallix, B.

doi:10.1148/radiol.12111263

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MR Volumetric Measurement of Low Rectal Cancer Helps Predict Tumor Response and Outcome after Combined Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy

Published in Radiology • Mar 23, 2012

Authors:

Stéphanie Nougaret

Philippe Rouanet

Nicolas Molinari

Abstract

PURPOSE: To retrospectively determine whether magnetic resonance (MR) volumetry of rectal cancer is a reproducible method for predicting disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with locally advanced low or midrectal tumors who undergo combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy (CRT) before total me...

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Medicine

Confidence interval

Colorectal cancer

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