Small cell carcinoma of the esophagus with reference to alternating multiagent chemotherapy: Report of two cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 294-298

  Koide, Naohiko ^a   Hiraguri, Manabu ^a   Kishimoto, Kyou ^a   Nakamura, Toshiyuki ^a   Adachi, Wataru ^a   Miyabayashi, Hideharu ^b   Terai, Naoki ^b   Amano, Jun ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nagano Cancer Detection Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternating chemotherapy; Esophagus; Progastrin releasing peptide; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; PROGASTRIN; PROGASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; RELEASING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0037880375     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300066     Document Type: Article

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