Thermo-chemo-radiotherapy for advanced gallbladder carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 64, 2005, Pages 1005-1010

  Kamisawa, Terumi ^a   Tu, Yuyang ^a   Ishiwata, Jun Ichi ^a   Karasawa, Katsuyuki ^a   Matsuda, Tadayoshi ^a   Sasaki, Tsuneo ^a   Funata, Nobuaki ^a   Tsuruta, Kouji ^a   Okamoto, Atsutake ^a   Takahashi, Toshio ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gallbladder carcinoma; Hyperthermia; Thermo chemoradiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; FISTULA; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GASTRITIS; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 21744439781     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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