High curative resection rate with weekly cisplatin, 5-fluorouracil, epidoxorubicin, 6S-leucovorin, glutathione, and filgastrim in patients with locally advanced, unresectable gastric cancer: a report from the Italian Group for the Study of Digestive Tract Cancer (GISCAD).

S Cascinu M Scartozzi R Labianca V Catalano R R Silva S Barni A Zaniboni A D'Angelo S Salvagni G Martignoni G D Beretta F Graziano R Berardi V Franciosi

Br J Cancer

Clinica di Oncologia, Università Politecnica delle Marche-Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I, via Conca, Ancona 60020, Italy.

Published: April 2004

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of a weekly preoperative chemotherapy in locally advanced, unresectable gastric cancer. In all, 82 patients with an Eastern Oncology Cooperative Group PS

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