Clinical and pathologic evaluation of the effectiveness of neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy in advanced esophageal cancer patients

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1002-1009

  Akutsu, Yasunori ^a   Matsubara, Hisahiro ^a   Shuto, Kiyohiko ^a   Uesato, Masaya ^a   Mori, Mikito ^a   Hoshino, Isamu ^a   Shiratori, Toru ^a   Miyazawa, Yukimasa ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a   Uno, Takashi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG EFFICACY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349256840     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9899-8     Document Type: Article

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