Survival benefit of surgery in patients with clinical T4 esophageal cancer who achieved complete or partial response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or radiotherapy.
Lin-Rui GaoChen LiWeiming HanWenjie NiWei DengLijun TanZongmei ZhouDongfu ChenQinfu FengJun LiangJima LvWenqing WangWenyang LiuLei DengXin WangTao ZhangJianyang WangYirui ZhaiNan BiLvhua WangZhouguang HuiYe-Xiong LiZefen XiaoPublished in: Therapeutic advances in medical oncology (2022)
The long-term survival of cT4 ESCC was improved after the use of three-dimensional CRT. In cT4, EC responded to nCRT/RT, surgery improves PFS but not OS.
Keyphrases
- locally advanced
- minimally invasive
- rectal cancer
- coronary artery bypass
- image quality
- computed tomography
- dual energy
- contrast enhanced
- early stage
- surgical site infection
- squamous cell carcinoma
- radiation therapy
- positron emission tomography
- lymph node
- heart failure
- radiation induced
- magnetic resonance
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- free survival
- left ventricular