Current advancement in management of esophageal cancer
Loco-regionally advanced esophageal cancer is a lethal disease with poor outcomes despite aggressive multimodality therapy.Surgical resection has been considered as the standard of care.The surgical mortality rate is highly correlated with the volume of the esophagectomies in the treating institutions.The goal of the surgical resection is to achieve R0 resection,because without R0 resection,patients have no chance to be cured.High local and distant recurrence rate are major patterns of treatment failure after surgery only.Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may improve patient overall survival compared with surgery only.Preoperative chemoradiotherapy may be superior to preoperative chemotherapy.
Zhongxing Liao
Department of Radiation Oncology The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center USA
国内会议
北京
英文
79-79
2012-09-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）