Chemoradiotherapy before and after surgery for locally advanced esophageal cancer: A SEER-medicare analysis

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3999-4007

  Hong, Julian C ^a,b   Murphy, James D ^a,c   Wang, Samuel J ^d   Koong, Albert C ^a   Chang, Daniel T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICARE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886095418     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-3072-9     Document Type: Article

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