Combined Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Compared with Radiotherapy Alone in Patients with Cancer of the Esophagus

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 326, Issue 24, 1992, Pages 1593-1598

  Herskovic, Arnold ^a,b   Martz, Karen ^c   al Sarraf, Muhyi ^d   Leichman, Lawrence ^e   Brindle, Jeffrey ^f   Vaitkevicius, Vainutis ^d   Cooper, Jay ^g   Byhardt, Roger ^h   Davis, Lawrence ⁱ   Emami, Bahman ^j  

^a OAKWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 0026769381     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199206113262403     Document Type: Article

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