Complete pathologic response with combination oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy in an older patient with advanced gastric cancer

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1024-1026

  Amini, Arya ^a   Sanati, Homayoon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; gastric cancer; perioperative chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; OXALIPLATIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; LAPAROTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OMENTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053622429     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: 14735741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CAD.0b013e32834a2c16     Document Type: Article

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