Whole-liver radiotherapy for end-stage colorectal cancer patients with massive liver metastases and advanced hepatic dysfunction

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Yeo, Seung Gu ^a,b   Kim, Dae Yong ^a   Kim, Tae Hyun ^a   Kim, Sun Young ^a   Hong, Yong Sang ^c   Jung, Kyung Hae ^c  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 CHLORO 2,4 DIHYDROXYPYRIDINE PLUS OXONATE POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BEVACIZUMAB; BILIRUBIN; CAPECITABINE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CETUXIMAB; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; UFT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RADIATION DOSE; ADENOCARCINOMA; BLOOD; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 77958129841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-97     Document Type: Article

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