Post-therapeutic response evaluation by a combination of endoscopy and CT scan in esophagogastric adenocarcinoma after chemotherapy: better than its reputation

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 314-325

  Blank, Susanne ^a   Lordick, Florian ^b   Bader, Franz ^c   Burian, Maria ^a   Dobritz, Martin ^c   Grenacher, Lars ^a   Becker, Karen ^c   Weichert, Wilko ^d   Langer, Rupert ^e   Sisic, Leila ^a   Stange, Annika ^d   Jäger, Dirk ^d   Büchler, Markus ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^d   Siewert, Jörg ^f   Ott, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b University Cancer Center Leipzig (UCCL)   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Clinical response; Esophagogastric adenocarcinoma; Histopathological response; Response evaluation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84939873313     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: 14363305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-014-0367-x     Document Type: Article

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