A case of unresectable cardiac gastric cancer patient who maintained a long-term QOL with chemotherapy and detention of metallic stent

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2290-2293

  Hataji, Kenichiro ^a   Ami, Katsunori ^a   Nagahama, Takeshi ^a   Ohara, Toshiya ^a   Ganno, Hideaki ^a   Kawasaki, Norihito ^a   Fukuda, Akira ^a   Ando, Masayuki ^a   Arai, Kuniyoshi ^a   Tei, Shikofumi ^a  

^a Toshima Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac gastric cancer; Chemotherapy; Metallic stent

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOCETAXEL; TUMOR MARKER;

ASCITES; BALLOON DILATATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETENTION; DIAGNOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PERITONITIS; PUNCTURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; STENOSIS; STENT; STOMACH CANCER; SURGERY; SWALLOWING; THERAPY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84864620129     PISSN: 03850684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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