TY - JOUR
T1 - Surgical and interventional palliative treatment of upper gastrointestinal malignancies
AU - Rice, David
AU - Geller, Alex
AU - Bender, Claire E.
AU - Gostout, Christopher J.
AU - Donohue, John H.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Malignancies of the upper gastrointestinal tract, including the oesophagus, stomach, liver, bile ducts and pancreas, are highly virulent diseases. While curative therapies relieve symptoms caused by these cancers, most of these treatments prove unsuccessful in the control of tumour due to occult residual disease. This review covers only planned palliative procedures for these conditions where patient factors (e.g. performance status or patient wishes) or tumour factors (e.g. locally advanced or known metastatic disease) prevent potentially curative intervention. For most patients, palliation of luminal obstruction, pain or other symptoms is the most worthwhile treatment that can be offered with present therapies. (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
AB - Malignancies of the upper gastrointestinal tract, including the oesophagus, stomach, liver, bile ducts and pancreas, are highly virulent diseases. While curative therapies relieve symptoms caused by these cancers, most of these treatments prove unsuccessful in the control of tumour due to occult residual disease. This review covers only planned palliative procedures for these conditions where patient factors (e.g. performance status or patient wishes) or tumour factors (e.g. locally advanced or known metastatic disease) prevent potentially curative intervention. For most patients, palliation of luminal obstruction, pain or other symptoms is the most worthwhile treatment that can be offered with present therapies. (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
KW - Bypass
KW - Carcinoma of oesophagus
KW - Carcinoma of pancreas
KW - Carcinoma of stomach
KW - Cholangiocarcinoma
KW - Hepatocellular carcinoma
KW - Palliative management
KW - Surgery
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U2 - 10.1097/00042737-200012040-00006
DO - 10.1097/00042737-200012040-00006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 10783992
AN - SCOPUS:0034003527
SN - 0954-691X
VL - 12
SP - 403
EP - 408
JO - European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
JF - European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
IS - 4
ER -