An audit of postoperative radiotherapy after non-curative resection for cancer of the oesophagus

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 352-357

  Kumar, Shaleen ^a   Dimri, K ^a   Balachandran, P ^a   Kumar, A ^a   Lal, P ^a   Sikora, S S ^a   Rastogi, N ^a   Saxena, R ^a   Datta, N R ^a   Ayyagari, S ^a   Kapoor, V K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Oesophageal cancer; Postoperative radiotherapy; Trans hiatal oesophagectomy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BOLUS INJECTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COBALT TELETHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIARRHEA; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STOMACH ULCER; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21644477101     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2005.02.010     Document Type: Article

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