Successful paclitaxel-based chemotherapy for an alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer patient with multiple liver metastases

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Takeyama, Hiromitsu ^a   Sawai, Hirozumi ^a   Wakasugi, Takehiro ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Matsuo, Yoichi ^a   Ochi, Nobuo ^a   Yasuda, Akira ^a   Sato, Mikinori ^a   Okada, Yuji ^a   Funahashi, Hitoshi ^a   Akamo, Yoshimi ^a   Manabe, Tadao ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PACLITAXEL; TS 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG EFFICACY; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPANESE; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTPATIENT; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOSYNTHESIS; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACLITAXEL; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547794179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-5-79     Document Type: Article

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