Prognostic value of haemoglobin levels during concurrent radio-chemotherapy in the treatment of oesophageal cancer

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-144

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Lang, S ^a   Schild, S E ^b   Alberti, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Haemoglobin; Oxygenation; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 31644449397     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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