Prognostic significance of alarm symptoms in patients with gastric cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 840-846

  Stephens, M R ^a   Lewis, W G ^a   White, S ^a   Blackshaw, G R J C ^a   Edwards, P ^a   Barry, J D ^a   Allison, M C ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALARM SYMPTOM; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSISTENT VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTACIDS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; WALES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 21844464880     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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