Reliability of clinical nodal status regarding response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy compared with surgery alone and prognosis in esophageal cancer patients.

Conclusions: Despite modern staging methods, correct cN staging remains difficult in EC. Nodal overstaging (cN > pN) occurred more often than understaging impeding an adequate assessment of pathologic complete response and prognosis after nCRT. PMID: 31397195 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Acta Oncologica - August 8, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dijksterhuis WPM, Hulshoff JB, van Dullemen HM, Kats-Ugurlu G, Burgerhof JGM, Korteweg T, Mul VEM, Hospers GAP, Plukker JTM Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research