Palliative radiotherapy for bleeding from advanced gastric cancer: Is a schedule of 30 Gy in 10 fractions adequate?

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-130

  Asakura, Hirofumi ^a   Hashimoto, Takayuki ^a   Harada, Hideyuki ^a   Mizumoto, Masashi ^a   Furutani, Kazuhisa ^a   Hasuike, Noriaki ^a   Matsuoka, Masaki ^a   Ono, Hiroyuki ^a   Boku, Narikazu ^a   Nishimura, Tetsuo ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Chemoradiotherapy; Gastric cancer; Palliation; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

5 CHLORO 2,4 DIHYDROXYPYRIDINE PLUS OXONATE POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78751635009     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-010-0866-z     Document Type: Article

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