Changes in the surgical treatment of esophageal cancer
Isono, K.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 15(1): 33-38
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 3337527 Document Number: 322229
The surgical treatment of esophageal cancer has improved considerably during the past 50 years, and the operative mortality rate has become less than 5%. Indications for surgery have been extended and the postoperative outcome has improved to give a 5-year survival rate of 25% through combined use of radiation and chemotherapy. Recently, extended surgery with lymphadenectomy of the neck, thorax and abdomen has become widely performed. As a result, the recurrence rate in nodes has decreased, while that in organs has increased. It is thus important to establish a suitable form of chemotherapy as well as achieving early detection of cancer.