Surgery plus chemotherapy compared with surgery alone for localized squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus: A Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study - JCOG9204

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4592-4596

  Ando, Nobutoshi ^a   Iizuka, Toshifumi ^b   Ide, Hiroko ^b   Ishida, Kaoru ^b   Shinoda, Masayuki ^b   Nishimaki, Tadashi ^b   Takiyama, Wataru ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^b   Isono, Kaichi ^b   Aoyama, Norio ^b   Makuuchi, Hiroyasu ^b   Tanaka, Otsuo ^b   Yamana, Hideaki ^b   Ikeuchi, Shunji ^b   Kabuto, Toshiyuki ^b   Nagai, Kagami ^b   Shimada, Yutaka ^b   Kinjo, Yoshihide ^b   Fukuda, Haruhiko ^b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1542438628     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.12.095     Document Type: Article

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