Adjuvant external-beam radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy after resection of primary gallbladder carcinoma: A 23-year experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1030-1034

  Czito, Brian G ^a   Hurwitz, Herbert I ^a   Clough, Robert W ^a   Tyler, Douglas S ^a   Morse, Michael A ^a   Clary, Bryan M ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Fernando, Nishan H ^a   Willett, Christopher G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Adjuvant therapy; Gallbladder cancer; Radiotherapy; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGERY;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CARCINOMA; GALLBLADDER CANCER; NONMETASTATIC CARCINOMA;

RADIOTHERAPY;

FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 21244436280     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.12.059     Document Type: Article

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