Clinical pilot studies on pre-operative hyperthermic tumour ablation for advanced breast carcinoma using an 8 MHz radiofrequency heating device

International Journal of Hyperthermia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-22

  Fujimoto, S ^a   Kobayashi, K ^a   Takahashi, M ^a   Nemoto, K ^a   Yamamoto, I ^b   Mutou, T ^a   Toyasawa, T ^a   Ashida, T ^a   Hayashi, S ^a   Igarashi, N ^a   Ohkubo, H ^a  

^a Social Insurance Funabashi Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b Yamamoto Vinita Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hyperthermic tumour ablation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; PIRARUBICIN; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROSIS; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12244279035     PISSN: 02656736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0265673021000017073     Document Type: Article

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