A feasibility study in oesophageal carcinoma using deep loco-regional hyperthermia combined with concurrent chemotherapy followed by surgery

International Journal of Hyperthermia

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 647-659

  Albregts, M ^a   Hulshof, M C C M ^a   Zum Vorde Sive Vording P J ^a   Van Lanschot, J J B ^b   Richel, D J ^a   Crezee, H ^a   Fockens, P ^a   Van Dijk, J D P ^a   Gonzalez Gonzalez D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hyperthermia; Neo adjuvant chemotherapy; Oesophageal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; BLOOD TOXICITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG FATALITY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FAT NECROSIS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PANCYTOPENIA; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SHOCK; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THERMOMETRY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ETOPOSIDE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4444348987     PISSN: 02656736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02656730410001714977     Document Type: Article

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