Strategies for palliative care in advanced colorectal cancer

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 344-351

  Dixon, Matthew R ^a   Stamos, Michael J ^b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Palliation; Palliative care; Stage 4 cancer

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CAPECITABINE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITOR; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GABAPENTIN; IRINOTECAN; OPIATE; OXALIPLATIN; PLATINUM COMPLEX; PRODRUG; UFT;

ADVANCED CANCER; ALOPECIA; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LASER; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; RECANALIZATION; REVIEW; STENT; SURGEON; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VOMITING;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16244388242     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081351     Document Type: Review

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