Four cases of pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma treated with gemcitabine or S-1 as a single agent

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 751-755

  Seki, Yoshitaka ^a   Okusaka, Takuji ^a   Ikeda, Masafumi ^a,b   Morizane, Chigusa ^a   Ueno, Hideki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemo GI tract; GI pancreas; GI pancreas med; GI pancreas radoncol

Indexed keywords

5 CHLORO 2,4 DIHYDROXYPYRIDINE PLUS OXONATE POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; FLUOROPYRIMIDINE; GEMCITABINE;

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SURGERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXONIC ACID; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TEGAFUR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449350417     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyp085     Document Type: Article

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