Meta-analysis of survival benefit with postoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients of lymph node positive esophageal carcinoma.
H LuoY Y CuiJ G ZhangY N SunX L ZhengC L YangK YeHong GePublished in: Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico (2017)
This meta-analysis demonstrated a survival benefit of postoperative CRT over SA in resectable EC patients with positive lymph nodes. Improvements of local control rates with postoperative CRT were also detected.
Keyphrases
- lymph node
- systematic review
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- meta analyses
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- locally advanced
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- rectal cancer
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- squamous cell carcinoma
- free survival
- randomized controlled trial
- radiation therapy
- patient reported