Choosing the best treatment for esophageal cancer: Criteria for selecting the best multimodal therapy

Recent Results in Cancer Research

Volumn 196, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-177

  Holscher A H ^a   Bollschweiler, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CRIZOTINIB; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84870051073     PISSN: 00800015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31629-6_11     Document Type: Article

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