A case of locally, advanced pancreatic cancer with superior membrane artery invasion successfully resected after gemcitabine-based chemoradiotherapy

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2428-2429

  Ohmura, Yoshiaki ^a   Takeda, Yutaka ^a   Nagano, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamori, Shoji ^b   Kobayashi, Shogo ^a   Marubashi, Shigeru ^a   Eguchi, Hidetoshi ^a   Tanemura, Masahiro ^a   Kitagawa, Toru ^a   Monden, Morito ^a   Mori, Masaki ^a   Doki, Yuichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Gemcitabine; Locally advanced borderline unresectable pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ARTERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY;

EID: 84864579511     PISSN: 03850684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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