Case Report: A young woman with advanced esophageal cancer showing pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CDDP, 5-FU and ADM)

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2385-2389

  Naritaka, Yoshihiko ^a   Ogawa, Kenji ^a   Shimakawa, Takeshi ^a   Wagatsuma, Yoshihisa ^a   Hamaguchi, Kanako ^a   Konno, Souichi ^a   Katšube, Takao ^a   Yagawa, Hirokazu ^a   Aiba, Motohiko ^a   Ide, Hiroko ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hamacho Center Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; PACLITAXEL; VINDESINE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY;

EID: 4444281338     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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