Further evidence for the value of the chemosensitivity test in deciding appropriate chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3 B, 1998, Pages 1973-1978

  Fujita, Koji ^a   Kubota, Tetsuro ^a   Matsuzaki, Shinjiro Wilson ^a   Otani, Yoshihide ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Teramoto, Tatsuo ^a   Kumai, Koichiro ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant cancer chemotherapy; Curative operation; MTT assay; Stomach cancer; Survival period

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MITOMYCIN; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031928663     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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