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Preoperative Concurrent Radiochemotherapy for Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer: Treatment Outcome and Prognostic Factors  

Kim, Hae-Young (Departments of Radiation Oncology, Sam sung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Kim, Kwan-Min (Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Sam sung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Kim, Jhin-Gook (Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Sam sung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Shim, Young-Mog (Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Sam sung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Im, Young-Hyuck (Departments of Medicine, Sam sung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Ahn, Yong-Chan (Departments of Radiation Oncology, Sam sung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
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Radiation Oncology Journal / v.25, no.3, 2007 , pp. 160-169 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study reports the results of the use of preoperative concurrent radiochemotherapy (CRCT) for the treatment of locoregionally advanced esophageal cancer. Materials and Methods: From 1998 through 2005, 61 patients with intrathoracic esophageal cancer at stages II-IVB (without distant organ metastasis and presumed to be respectable) received preoperative CRCT. CRCT consisted of radiotherapy (45 Gy /25 fractions /5 weeks) and FP chemotherapy (5-FU 1 g/$m^{2}$/day, days 1-4 and 29-32, Cisplatin 60 mg/$m^{2}$/day, days 1 and 29). An esophagectomy was planned in $4{\sim}6$ weeks after the completion of CRCT. Results: There were two treatment-related deaths. Among the 61 patients, 53 patients underwent surgery and 17 patients achieved a pathological complete response (pCR). The overall survival (OS) rates of all 61 patients at 2 and 5 years were 59.0% and 38.0%, respectively. The rates of OS and disease-free survival (DFS) of the surgically resected patients at 2 and 5 years were 61.6%, 40.1 % and 53.3%, 41.8%, respectively. By univariate analysis, achieviement of pCR and a clinically uninvolved distant lymph node (cMO) were favorable prognostic factors for OS and DFS. There were 27 patients that experienced a relapse-a locoregional relapse occurred in 5 patients, a distant metastasis occurred in 12 patients and combined failure occurred in 10 patients. Conclusion: The results of the current study are favorable. pCR and an uninvolved distant lymph node were found to be favorable prognostic factors.
Keywords
Esophageal cancer; Preoperative treatment; Concurrent radio-chemotherapy;
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