Radiation therapy for esophageal cancer

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 569-581

  Suntharalingam, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; VINBLASTINE;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033887035     PISSN: 10523359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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