Retrospective review of surgery and definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus aged 75 years or older

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 360-366

  Kosugi, Shin Ichi ^a   Sasamoto, Ryuta ^a   Kanda, Tatsuo ^a   Matsuki, Atsushi ^a   Hatakeyama, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged 75 years or older; Chemoradiotherapy; Esophagectomy; Retrospective study; Squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANOREXIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG FATALITY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTESTINE NECROSIS; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 66449135393     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyp030     Document Type: Review

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