880 cryotherapy in addition to chemotherapy for palliation of inoperable esophageal cancer: a multicenter prospective study

Palliation of dysphagia (Dys) in patients with inoperable esophageal cancer (EC) can be challenging. The major goal of palliation is to improve patient ’s quality of life (QoL) and Dys and allow adequate caloric intake. The most commonly used palliative modalities for Dys are radiation therapy (RT) and esophageal stenting. However, RT is limited by total dose and adverse events (AE) in patients receiving systemic therapy (ST), and stenting suffer s from a high rate of AE including reflux and chest pain.

Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - May 31, 2020 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Toufic Kachaamy, Neil R. Sharma, Rahul Pannala, Jeffrey Weber, Kimberly Gorsuch, Yashika Young, Christina Salas, Christina M. Zelt, Heather Werling, Digant Gupta, Pankaj G. Vashi Tags: Oral abstracts Source Type: research