Efficacy of sequential methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (MTX/5FU) in improving oral intake in patients with advanced gastric cancer with severe peritoneal dissemination

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 153-157

  Imazawa, Masako ^a   Kojima, Takashi ^a   Boku, Narikazu ^a   Onozawa, Yusuke ^a   Hironaka, Shuichi ^a   Fukutomi, Akira ^a   Yasui, Hirofumi ^a   Yamazaki, Kentaro ^a   Taku, Keisei ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Oral intake; Peritoneal dissemination; Sequential MTX 5FU therapy

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; BICARBONATE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPENIA; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASCITES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449132552     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-009-0517-8     Document Type: Article

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