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Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Adjuvant therapy for completely resected esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is less commonly applied in clinical practice than neoadjuvant therapy, but it plays a substantial role in improving survival for esophageal cancer patients. This article presents a concise review of the evidence regarding a...

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Autor principal: Sun, Jong-Mu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793447
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2020.53.4.168
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spelling pubmed-74098912020-08-12 Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Sun, Jong-Mu Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Collective of current Review, Lecture Adjuvant therapy for completely resected esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is less commonly applied in clinical practice than neoadjuvant therapy, but it plays a substantial role in improving survival for esophageal cancer patients. This article presents a concise review of the evidence regarding adjuvant therapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and future directions, particularly immunotherapy. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2020-08-05 2020-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7409891/ /pubmed/32793447 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2020.53.4.168 Text en Copyright © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020. All right reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
title_full Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
title_fullStr Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
title_short Adjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
title_sort adjuvant therapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793447
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2020.53.4.168
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