The higher the decrease in the standardized uptake value of positron emission tomography after chemoradiation, the better the survival of patients with gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5184-5192

  Javeri, Heta ^a   Xiao, Lianchun ^a   Rohren, Eric ^a   Lee, Jeffrey H ^a   Liao, Zhongxing ^a   Hofstetter, Wayne ^a   Maru, Dipen ^a   Bhutani, Manoop S ^a   Swisher, Stephen G ^a   Macapinlac, Homer ^a   Wang, Xuemei ^a   Ajani, Jaffer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; PLATINUM; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 70449396820     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24604     Document Type: Article

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