A case of advanced esophageal cancer with extensive lymph node metastases successfully treated with multimodal therapy

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 310-314

  Shigemitsu, Kaori ^a   Naomoto, Yoshio ^a   Shirakawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Haisa, Minou ^a   Gunduz, Mehmet ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Esophageal cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Multimodal therapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0036688840     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyf067     Document Type: Article

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