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Esophageal Cancer - Radiation Therapy
The National Cancer Database was queried regarding esophageal squamous cancer cases from 2004-2013, and over 11,000 patients were identified. Definitive chemoradiotherapy was used in 79%, whereas resection was employed in 21% at some phase of...
Stiles and colleagues evaluated outcomes for patients with esophageal cancer undergoing surgical resection after either neoadjuvant chemoradiation or preoperative chemotherapy without radiation. The authors evaluated disease-free and cancer-specific survival from...
This retrospective single institution study evaluated the relationship between radiation dose to the gastric fundus and the incidence of esophageal anastomotic leak after esophagectomy for cancer. The leak rate was...
The authors queried the NCDB to compare outcomes for patients undergoing induction chemotherapy vs chemoradiotherapy followed by resection for esophageal cancer. The vast majority received chemoradiotherapy (87.5%), which was associated...
Whether adding radiotherapy to induction chemotherapy prior to esophagectomy adds a survival benefit is uncertain. The authors assessed outcomes of 214 patients with T3N1M0 adenocarcinoma among three institutions who underwent...