Long-term results of chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced esophageal cancer, using daily low-dose 5-fluorouracil and cis-diammine-dichloro-platinum (CDDP)

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Sasamoto, Ryuta ^a   Sakai, Kunio ^b,c   Inakoshi, Hideki ^b,c   Sueyama, Hiroo ^b,c   Saito, Mari ^b,c   Sugita, Tadashi ^b,c   Tsuchida, Emiko ^a   Ito, Takeshi ^b,c   Matsumoto, Yasuo ^b,c   Yamanoi, Tadayoshi ^a   Abe, Eisuke ^a   Yamana, Nobuko ^a   Sasai, Keisuke ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Niigata Chemoradiation Study Group   (Japan)

^c Department of Radiology ^*

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Esophageal cancer; Long term survival; Low dose chemotherapy; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947547417     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-006-0617-y     Document Type: Article

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