Esophageal Cancer: Recent advances

Thoracic Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 75-83

  Sadiq, Adil ^a   Mansour, Kamal A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IVOR LEWIS TECHNIQUE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ODYNOPHAGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY; YAG LASER;

EID: 84855537531     PISSN: 17597706     EISSN: 17597714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-7714.2011.00054.x     Document Type: Review

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