Concurrent chemotherapy (5-fluorouracil and cisplatin) and radiation therapy followed by surgery for T4 squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-32

  Yano, Masahlko ^a   Tsujinaka, Toshimasa ^a   Shiozaki, Hitoshi ^a   Inoue, Masatoshi ^a   Doki, Yuichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Makoto ^a   Tanaka, Eiichi ^a   Inoue, Toshihiko ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Inoperable esophageal cancer; Neoadjuvant therapy; Squamous cell carcinoma; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032917684     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199901)70:1<25::AID-JSO5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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