Comparison of long-term outcomes between radical esophagectomy and definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with clinical T1bN0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Conclusions: The appreciable developments in radiation technology have enabled the achievement of comparable long-term outcomes in the chemoradiotherapy group compared with the esophagectomy group in patients with clinical T1bN0M0 thoracic ESCC. PMID: 31903254 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31903254?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - January 8, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research