Correlation between pretherapeutic d-dimer levels and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with advanced esophageal cancer.
Source Tomimaru Y, Yano M, Takachi K, et al. Dis Esophagus. 2008;21(4):281-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2007.00758.x. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may improve survival of responders in esophageal cancer patients but is useless and harmful in non-responders. Thus, it is important to predict the effect of the chemotherapy, and that any predictor must be applicable clinically. The aim of this […]
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