Role of Adjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy in Adenocarcinomas of the Ampulla of Vater

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 735-743

  Krishnan, Sunil ^a   Rana, Vishal ^a   Evans, Douglas B ^a   Varadhachary, Gauri ^a   Das, Prajnan ^a   Bhatia, Sumita ^a   Delclos, Marc E ^a   Janjan, Nora A ^a   Wolff, Robert A ^a   Crane, Christopher H ^a   Pisters, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; Ampullary cancer; Chemotherapy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; DRUG PRODUCTS; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION THERAPY (CRT); AMPULLARY CANCER; DISTANT CONTROL (DC); PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY;

CHEMOTHERAPY;

CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPULLA OF VATER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38849114367     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2327     Document Type: Article

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