Stage-for-stage comparison of definitive chemoradiotherapy, surgery alone and neoadjuvant chemotherapy for oesophageal carcinoma

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1300-1307

  Morgan, M A ^a   Lewis, W G ^a   Casbard, A ^a   Roberts, S A ^a   Adams, R ^b   Clark, G W B ^a   Havard, T J ^c   Crosby, T D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b VELINDRE CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; OTOTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350503153     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6705     Document Type: Article

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