Esophageal Cancer - Other
This editorial summarizes the landscape that led to the founding of the Thoracic Surgical Oncology Group in 2017, in an era when, due to various oncology group reorganizations, a need developed for a focused committee...
A deep-learning computer aided detection (CAD) system was trained to recognize neoplasia using nearly 500,000 endoscopic images. In head-to-head testing against experienced gastroenterologists using additional images, the accuracy of CAD...
Surgery for cancer is known to suppress immune response and facilitate the development of metastases. In this study in mice, a scaffold designed to release agonists of innate immunity over...
Reddy and colleagues evaluated oral, esophageal, and gastric microbial flora in 55 patients who underwent successful esophagectomy for adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, or benign disease. The authors did not observe...
In this multicenter study, baseline QOL was assessed in over 200 patients with stage II or III esophageal cancer who underwent induction therapy and surgery or definitive chemoradiotherapy. Baseline QOL...
This video shows an example of a transthoracic robotic resection of an esophageal leiomyoma. A 48-year-old male was admitted with the complaint of dysphagia. A thoracic CT scan revealed a...
Routine use of PET scans to follow up asymptomatic patients do not affect survival, according to this retrospective analysis of a cohort of 97,152 lung cancer and 4,446 esophageal cancer...
This small randomized trial evaluated the potential benefits of ghrelin, an anti-inflammatory agent, in reducing the SIRS response after esophagectomy. The ghrelin group had a reduced SIRS duration, lower CRP...
There is growing recognition that hospital mortality is not an accurate metric for surgery-related mortality after cancer operations. This article evaluated SEER data for 1-month mortality after cancer surgery in...
This meta-analysis evaluated 6 published studies involving over 71,000 cancer patients who experienced 2002 instances of cancer mortality. Compared to patients with low fitness, those with high levels of cardiorespiratory...
Data from the Barrett’s and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Genetic Susceptibility Study were used to determine the relationship of a genetic risk score associated with obesity to cancer risk. The risk score...
Data from 20 observational studies including nearly 3000 pts were reviewed to assess the prevalence of pre-frailty/frailty and clinical outcomes in older cancer patients. Frailty was identified in 42% and...
The histologic response to induction therapy is usually a binary function. In the current study, the authors explored methods of refining the histologic response classification to improve prediction of prognosis...


