## Abstract ## Background. Although meta‐analysis showed that survival improved with concurrent chemoradiation in locally advanced head and neck cancer, neoadjuvant chemotherapy is still unique, because it renders curative surgery feasible for marginally resectable head and neck cancer patients.
Clinical response to induction chemotherapy predicts local control and long-term survival in multimodal treatment of patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer
✍ Scribed by Michael Stahl; Hansjochen Wilke; Martin Stuschke; Martin K. Walz; Ulrich Fink; Michael Molls; J. Rüdiger Siewert; Michael Schroeder; Hans-Bruno Makoski; Ulrich Schmidt; Siegfried Seeber; Udo Vanhoefer
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 131
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1335
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