Early report of correlation between the thermal dosage and the treatment effect of hyperthermia in combination with chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer patients

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 48, 2002, Pages 1560-1562

  Kitamura, Kaoru ^a   Ishida, Mayumi ^a   Kimura, Yasue ^a   Saeki, Hiroshi ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Hyperthermia; Hyperthermo chemoradiotherapy (HCR); Thermal dose; Treatment effect

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INOPERABLE CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036840712     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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