PMID: 11899954Mar 20, 2002Paper

Multimodality therapy for resectable cancer of the thoracic esophagus

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
John W C Entwistle, Melvyn Goldberg

Abstract

The frequency of esophageal carcinoma continues to increase in North America primarily because of the increased incidence of Barrett's epithelium in the distal esophagus and its malignant potential. Aggressive treatments involving multimodality therapies have been offered to improve overall poor survival rates. A review of this experience follows, to explain the rationale and to compare results of therapies. Although preoperative chemoradiation therapy is commonly used for locally advanced disease, few data support its superiority over surgical resection alone, followed by adjuvant therapy when appropriate. Hence this regimen should be limited to patients enrolled in controlled, randomized studies until the data support its widespread use.

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