Feasibility of chemoradiation therapy with protracted infusion of 5-fluorouracil for esophageal cancer patients not suitable for cisplatin

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 256-261

  Burmeister, Bryan H ^a   Walpole, Euan T ^a   Burmeister, Elizabeth A ^a   Thomas, Janine ^a   Thomson, Damien B ^a   Harvey, Jennifer A ^a   Smithers, B Mark ^a   Gotley, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation therapy; Esophageal cancer; Fluorouracil; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN TOXICITY; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 24144482723     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-005-0506-9     Document Type: Article

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