Adjuvant chemotherapy in a unique population of patients with gastric cancer undergoing surgery

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 58, 2004, Pages 1245-1248

  Uslu, A ^a   Karaca, C ^b   Nart, A ^a   Adagulu H ^b   Aykas, A ^a   Gurkan A ^b   Dogan, M ^a  

^a SSK Izmir Hospital   (Turkey)

^b SSK Tepecik Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Curative surgery; D2 dissection; Gastric cancer; Moderately differentiated

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3042520849     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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