Predicting factors for survival of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer: A management guideline

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 49, 2003, Pages 250-253

  Fujino, Yasuhiro ^a   Suzuki, Yasuyuki ^a   Ajiki, Tetsuo ^a   Tanioka, Yasuki ^a   Ku, Yonson ^a   Kuroda, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pancreatic cancer; Predicting factor; Unresectable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT BYPASS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH BYPASS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037263380     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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