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Esophageal cancer is usually detected in the advanced stage due to its anatomical characteristics. Recently, early esophageal cancers are detected more frequently with the nationwide screening of digestive tract cancer...
Choi YA, Kim HG, Jung S, Lee DH, Lee JI, Lee JW, Park JY, Shin YW, Kim YS, Kim KH, Yun YH, No JK, Kim CS
KMID: 783122
Korean J Gastroenterol.
2009 Jan;53(1):15-22.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: This study was designed to compare the survival rates between patients with localized esophgeal cancer who were treated with concurrent chemoradiation therapy without surgery and patients who were treated...
Conventional treatment of esophageal cancer with surgery or radiation alone has afforded few long-term survivors. In order to improve outcome and determine the efficacy of a combined modality approach, this...