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Hemostatic Radiotherapy Used Twice for Inoperable Progressive Gastric Cancer with Bleeding

Authors: Osamu Tanaka, Kana Matsuura, Akihiko Sugiyama, Tomohiro Kato, Eiichi Tomita, Masayuki Matsuo

Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer | Issue 1/2019

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Both men and women suffer from high morbidity as a result of gastric cancer in Asian countries, including Japan. The first choice of treatment of gastric cancer without distant metastasis is surgery, and adjuvant chemotherapy is performed in stage II and stage III. …

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Title: Hemostatic Radiotherapy Used Twice for Inoperable Progressive Gastric Cancer with Bleeding
Authors: Osamu Tanaka
Kana Matsuura
Akihiko Sugiyama
Tomohiro Kato
Eiichi Tomita
Masayuki Matsuo
Publication date: 01-03-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1941-6628
Electronic ISSN: 1941-6636
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-017-9994-x

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