Prospective non-randomized trial comparing esophagectomy-followed-by- chemoradiotherapy versus chemoradiotherapy-followed-by-esophagectomy for T4 esophageal cancers

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 209-219

  Fujita, Hirmasa ^a   Sueyoshi, Susumu ^a   Tanaka, Toshiaki ^a   Tanaka, Yuichi ^a   Sasahara, Hiroko ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a   Suzuki, Gen ^a   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^a   Inutsuka, Hiroki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Esophagectomy; Informed consent; Multimodal treatment; Prospective trial; T4 esophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIETARY INTAKE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ILEUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; STOMACH ULCER; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRACHEA INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20044381857     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20259     Document Type: Article

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