Perioperative Therapy of Oesophagogastric Adenocarcinoma: Mainstay and Future Directions

Perioperative chemotherapy improves overall survival in patients with oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma (OAC) and locoregional disease. The mainstay of perioperative chemotherapy in these patients is a platinum/fluoropyrimidine combination. The phase III FLOT4 trial has shown that the FLOT triplet reg...

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Main Authors: Katrin Bose, Caspar Franck, Meike N. Müller, Ali Canbay, Alexander Link, Marino Venerito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5651903