Prognostic significance of lymphocyte infiltration following preoperative chemoradiotherapy and hyperthermia for esophageal cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1259-1266

  Morita, Masaru ^a   Kuwano, Hiroyuki ^b   Araki, Kohshi ^a   Egashira, Akinori ^a   Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi ^a   Saeki, Hiroshi ^a   Kitamura, Kaoru ^a   Ohno, Shinji ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Hyperthermia; Lymphocyte infiltration; Radiation

Indexed keywords

HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION; TUMORS;

CANCEROUS LESIONS;

CHEMOTHERAPY;

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035312442     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01465-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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