Early initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival of patients with pancreatic carcinoma after surgical resection

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 419-429

  Murakami, Yoshiaki ^a   Uemura, Kenichiro ^a   Sudo, Takeshi ^a   Hashimoto, Yasushi ^a   Kondo, Naru ^a   Nakagawa, Naoya ^a   Sasaki, Hayato ^a   Sueda, Taijiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Pancreatic carcinoma; Postoperative complication; Survival; Time to initiation

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE; GIMERACIL PLUS OTERACIL POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXONIC ACID; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TEGAFUR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874106152     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: 14320843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-012-2029-1     Document Type: Article

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