Prognostic significance of pathological tumor response and residual nodal metastasis in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery.
Junya OgumaSoji OzawaKazuo KoyanagiAkihito KazunoMiho YamamotoYamato NinomiyaKentaro YatabePublished in: Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society (2019)
The present study suggested that patients with resectable advanced ESCC undergoing NAC followed by surgery, who have both pN and worse pathological response, have a poor prognosis.
Keyphrases
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- poor prognosis
- locally advanced
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- long non coding rna
- lymph node
- sentinel lymph node
- rectal cancer
- surgical site infection
- transcription factor
- squamous cell carcinoma
- radiation therapy
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- coronary artery disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- atrial fibrillation
- liver metastases