Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for carcinoma of the oesophagus and oesophago-gastric junction: A six-year experience

International Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Halliday, Brian P ^a   Skipworth, Richard J E ^a   Wall, Lucy ^b   Phillips, Hamish A ^b   Couper, Graeme W ^a   de Beaux, Andrew C ^a   Paterson Brown, Simon ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEST INFECTION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANK SUM TEST; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 36949031709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7800-4-24     Document Type: Article

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