Cancer Therapy

Study results from M. van Heijl and colleagues in the area of cancer therapy published

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 2nd, 2009

Scientists discuss in 'Diagnostic strategies for pre-treatment staging of patients with oesophageal cancer' new findings in cancer. "Current guidelines for staging oesophageal cancer recommend a series of preoperative investigations. There is no consensus on the recommended order for these investigations or whether all investigations are necessary in all patients," scientists in Amsterdam, Netherlands report.

"Our aim was to determine an efficient strategy for pre-treatment staging of patients with oesophageal cancer. We retrospectively compared 15 staging strategies, based on all possible orders of all possible subsets of three staging modalities (computed tomography,...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-02)

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