Adjuvant therapy following oesophagectomy for adenocarcinoma in patients with a positive resection margin.

Rebecca K BottK BeckmannJ ZylstraM J WilkinsonW R C KnightC R BakerM KellyN MaiseyA QureshiT SevittMieke Van Hemelrijck Elizabeth C SmythW H AllumJ LagergrenJ A GossageD CunninghamA R Daviesnull null

Published in: The British journal of surgery (2020)

Adjuvant therapy may improve overall survival and recurrence-free survival after margin-positive resection. This pattern seems most pronounced with adjuvant chemoradiotherapy in non-responders to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Keyphrases

neoadjuvant chemotherapy
locally advanced
rectal cancer
squamous cell carcinoma
radiation therapy
sentinel lymph node
free survival
lymph node
early stage