Post-operative chemotherapy improves disease-free survival, but not overall survival in people with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 473-477

  Leonard, Gregory D ^a   O Reilly, Eileen M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; VINBLASTINE; VINDESINE;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VOMITING;

EID: 3242809020     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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