Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 473-477, August 2004

Post-operative chemotherapy improves disease-free survival, but not overall survival in people with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma:☆☆☆★

Abstracted from: Ando N, Iizuka T, Ide H et al. Surgery plus chemotherapy compared with surgery alone for localized squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus: a Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study – JCOG9204. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2003;21:4592–6.

Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, Box 324, New York, NY, USA

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☆ Sources of funding: This study was supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan and the Second Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control.

☆☆ For Correspondence: Nobutoshi Ando, Department of Surgery, Tokyo Dental College, Ichikawa General Hospital, Sugano, Ichikawashi, Chiba, Japan. E-mail: nando@tdc.ac.jp.

★ Abstract provided by Bazian Ltd., London.

PII: S0305-7372(04)00100-8

doi:10.1016/j.ctrv.2004.05.007

Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 473-477, August 2004

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