Chemoradiotherapy with twice-weekly administration of low-dose gemcitabine for locally advanced pancreatic cancer

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 5311-5315

  Igarashi, Hisato ^a   Ito, Tetsuhide ^a   Kawabe, Ken ^a   Hisano, Terumasa ^a   Arita, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kaku, Toyoma ^a   Takayanagi, Ryoichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced pancreatic cancer; Chemoradiotherapy; Gemcitabine; Radiosensitizer; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIVER METASTASIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PANCREAS TUMOR;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 64849113694     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.5311     Document Type: Article

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