Cytoreductive surgery and Hyperthermic Intra-Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) for gastric adenocarcinoma: Why haven't we reached the promised land?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 359-360

  Nissan, Aviram ^a   Garofalo, Alfredo ^b   Esquivel, Jesus ^c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c ST AGNES HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; OXALIPLATIN;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADENOCARCINOMA; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; REGIONAL PERFUSION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, CANCER, REGIONAL PERFUSION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957326868     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21619     Document Type: Editorial

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