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New directions in perioperative management of locally advanced esophagogastric cancer.
American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting - 1 Jan 2014
Burtness Barbara, Ilson David, Iqbal Syma
Abstract excerpt
Cancers of the esophagus arise as adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas; these represent distinct diseases, with differing prognosis, yet they are often studied in common trials. With surgery alone, 5 year survival for T2-T3N0 disease is less than 30% to 40%, and declines to less than 25% with nodal involvement. The CROSS randomly assigned patients to surgery alone or to weekly carboplatin/paclitaxel X 5...
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