Small cell carcinoma of the esophagus: The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center experience and literature review

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 262-267

  Medgyesy, Diana C ^a   Wolff, Robert A ^a   Putnam Jr , Joe B ^a   Ajani, Jaffer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Disease stage; Esophagus; Outcome; Prognosis; Radiotherapy; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034650736     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000115)88:2<262::AID-CNCR3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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