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Induction Therapy Does Not Improve Survival for Clinical Stage T2N0 Esophageal Cancer

Monday, July 28, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Source URL: http://journals.lww.com/jto/Abstract/2014/08000/Induction_Therapy_Does_Not_Impro…

Author(s)

Speicher, Paul J.; Ganapathi, Asvin M.; Englum, Brian R.; Hartwig, Matthew G.; Onaitis, Mark W.; D’Amico, Thomas A.; Berry, Mark F.

The efficacy of induction therapy for clinical T2 esophageal cancer was evaluated using the National Cancer Database. Pretreatment staging was accurate in only 27% of pts. 42% of pts were upstaged and 32% were downstaged. Induction therapy had no survival benefit.