Hepatic arterial infusion of 5-fluorouracil and extrabeam radiotherapy for liver metastases from pancreatic carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 58, 2004, Pages 1175-1178

  Ishii, Hiroshi ^a   Furuse, Junji ^a   Nagase, Michitaka ^a   Yoshino, Masahiro ^a   Kawashima, Mitsuhiko ^a   Satake, Mitsuo ^a   Ogino, Takashi ^a   Ikeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Hepatic arterial infusion; Liver metastasis; Pancreatic carcinoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ULCER; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042520866     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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