Effectiveness of salvage radiotherapy for superficial esophageal Cancer after non-curative endoscopic resection.
Ikuno NishibuchiYuji MurakamiYoshinori AdachiNobuki ImanoYuki TakeuchiIppei TkahashiTomoki KimuraYuji UrabeShiro OkaShinji TanakaYasushi NagataPublished in: Radiation oncology (London, England) (2020)
Salvage radiotherapy after non-curative esophageal endoscopic resection is an effective treatment as an organ preservation strategy. Although muscularis mucosae and submucosal cancer have a high risk of lymph node metastasis, our results suggest that elective nodal irradiation contributes to reduced regional node metastases.
Keyphrases
- lymph node metastasis
- papillary thyroid
- locally advanced
- early stage
- ultrasound guided
- squamous cell carcinoma
- rectal cancer
- radiation induced
- lymph node
- radiation therapy
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- randomized controlled trial
- systematic review
- prognostic factors
- patients undergoing
- combination therapy
- replacement therapy