Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?

Recent efforts to improve survival in patients with locally advanced esophageal carcinoma have combined both systemic and local therapy. However, the role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in technically operable IIa-III esophageal carcinoma is still unresolved.

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Autores principales: Cafarotti, Stefano, Cesario, Alfredo, Porziella, Venanzio, Margaritora, Stefano, Granone, Pierluigi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21504620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-41
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author Cafarotti, Stefano
Cesario, Alfredo
Porziella, Venanzio
Margaritora, Stefano
Granone, Pierluigi
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description Recent efforts to improve survival in patients with locally advanced esophageal carcinoma have combined both systemic and local therapy. However, the role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in technically operable IIa-III esophageal carcinoma is still unresolved.
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spelling pubmed-31034402011-05-28 Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence? Cafarotti, Stefano Cesario, Alfredo Porziella, Venanzio Margaritora, Stefano Granone, Pierluigi World J Surg Oncol Correspondence Recent efforts to improve survival in patients with locally advanced esophageal carcinoma have combined both systemic and local therapy. However, the role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in technically operable IIa-III esophageal carcinoma is still unresolved. BioMed Central 2011-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3103440/ /pubmed/21504620 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-41 Text en Copyright ©2011 Cafarotti et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Correspondence
Cafarotti, Stefano
Cesario, Alfredo
Porziella, Venanzio
Margaritora, Stefano
Granone, Pierluigi
Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
title Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
title_full Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
title_fullStr Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
title_full_unstemmed Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
title_short Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
title_sort chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone in esophageal cancer patients: is it time for additional evidence?
topic Correspondence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21504620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-41
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