Medicine

A Randomized Trial Comparing Postoperative Adjuvant Chemotherapy with Cisplatin and 5-Fluorouracil Versus Preoperative Chemotherapy for Localized Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Thoracic Esophagus (JCOG9907)

N. Ando, H. Kato, H. Igaki, M. Shinoda, S. Ozawa, H. Shimizu, Tsutomu Nakamura, H. Yabusaki, N. Aoyama, A. Kurita, K. Ikeda, T. Kanda, T. Tsujinaka, Kenichi Nakamura, H. Fukuda

2011ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-2049-9

tlooto Summary

Preoperative chemotherapy with cisplatin plus 5-fluorouracil can be regarded as standard treatment for patients with stage II/III squamous cell carcinoma.

Abstract

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ANDO, N., et al. A randomized trial comparing postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil versus preoperative chemotherapy for localized advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus (JCOG9907). ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, 2011, 19: 68–74.