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Title:

Curative treatment of oesophageal carcinoma: current options and future developments.

Document type:
Journal Article; Review
Author(s):
Wolf, MC; Stahl, M; Krause, BJ; Bonavina, L; Bruns, C; Belka, C; Zehentmayr, F
Abstract:
Since the 1980s major advances in surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have established multimodal approaches as curative treatment options for oesophageal cancer. In addition the introduction of functional imaging modalities such as PET-CT created new opportunities for a more adequate patient selection and therapy response assessment.The majority of oesophageal carcinomas are represented by two histologies: squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. In recent years an epidemiological shift t...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Radiat Oncol
Year:
2011
Journal volume:
6
Pages contribution:
55
Language:
eng
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1186/1748-717X-6-55
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21615894
Print-ISSN:
1748-717X
TUM Institution:
Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin
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