Survival benefit of palliative gastrectomy in advanced incurable gastric cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2 C, 2003, Pages 1853-1858

  Kunisaki, Chikara ^a   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Akiyama, Hirotoshi ^a   Nomura, Masato ^a   Matsuda, Goro ^a   Ono, Hidetaka ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced gastric cancer; Gastrectomy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037862094     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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