Who benefits from adjuvant radiation therapy for gastric cancer? A meta-analysis

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 330-335

  Ohri, Nitin ^a   Garg, Madhur K ^a   Aparo, Santiago ^a   Kaubisch, Andreas ^a   Tome, Wolfgang ^a   Kennedy, Timothy J ^a   Kalnicki, Shalom ^a   Guha, Chandan ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT RADIATION THERAPIES; CHEMORADIATION THERAPIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; METHODS AND MATERIALS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED TRIAL; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIOTHERAPY;

DISEASES;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84877575502     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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