Clinical evaluation of low-dose cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil as adjuvant chemoradiotherapy for advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 67-71

  Shimizu, Katsuhiko ^a   Hihara, Jun ^a   Yoshida, Kazuhiro ^a   Toge, Tetsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy; Adjuvant therapy; Advanced esophageal cancer; Low dose cisplatin and 5 fluorouracil

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 25144446885     PISSN: 00182052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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