A phase II study of preoperative chemotherapy and chemoradiation for localized gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (LGCA)

Authors :: Brian Weston
Prajnan Das
Roopma Wadhwa
Manoop S. Bhutani
Kazuki Sudo
Jaffer A. Ajani
Mariela A. Blum
Hsiang-Chun Chen
Brian D. Badgwell
Jeannelyn S. Estrella
Elena Elimova
Jeffrey H. Lee
Aurelio Matamoros
Rebecca Slack
Hironori Shiozaki
Source :: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 32:4053-4053
Publication Year :: 2014
Publisher :: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2014.
Abstract: 4053 Background: For patients with LGCA, adjunctive therapies improve the 5-year survival rates by ≈10% over surgery alone. We studied preoperative oxaliplatin/5-FU-based chemotherapy followed by c...

Subjects :: Oncology
Cancer Research
Chemotherapy
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Phases of clinical research
Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma
Oxaliplatin
Internal medicine
Medicine
Preoperative chemotherapy
Radiology
business
medicine.drug

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