Management of advanced pancreatic cancer: Staging laparoscopy and immunochemotherapy -A new treatment strategy-

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 48, 2002, Pages 1704-1706

  Kishiwada, Masashi ^a   Kawarada, Yoshifumi ^a   Taoka, Hiroki ^a   Isaji, Shuji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced pancreatic cancer; Immunochemothrapy; staging laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERLEUKIN-2; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036841633     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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