Palliative Superselective Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy for Advanced Nonresectable Gastric Cancer

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 426-431

  Shchepotin, Igor B ^b,c   Chorny, Viatcheslav ^b   Hanfelt, John ^a   Evans, Stephen R T ^d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b R E KAVETSKY INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Intra arterial chemotherapy; Palliative treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM TUMOR; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033155723     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(99)80060-2     Document Type: Article

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