Current treatment approach to locally advanced esophageal cancer: Is resection mandatory?

Future Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 717-721

  Lordick, Florian ^a   Ebert, Matthias ^b   Stein, Hubert J ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Chemotherapy; Esophageal cancer; Radiation; Resection; Response; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845634208     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796694.2.6.717     Document Type: Article

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