Primary chemo-radiotherapy and selective oesophagectomy for oesophageal cancer: goal of cure with organ preservation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-134

  Wilson, Kenneth S ^a,b   Lim, Jan T ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Oesophageal; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHASIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMATITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033995898     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00174-7     Document Type: Article

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