Treatment results of radiotherapy for carcinoma of the cervical esophagus

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1120-1125

  Yamada, Kazunari ^a,d   Murakami, Masao ^b   Okamoto, Yoshiaki ^c   Okuno, Yoshishige ^a   Nakajima, Toshifumi ^a   Kusumi, Fusako ^a   Takakuwa, Hiroshi ^a   Matsusue, Satoru ^a  

^a TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HYOGO ION BEAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Hyogo Prefectural Tsukaguchi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751339782     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860600609768     Document Type: Article

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