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ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2018

Surveillance versus esophagectomy in esophageal cancer patients with a clinical complete response after induction chemoradiation.

Tara R Semenkovich, Bryan F Meyers

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Review in Annals of translational medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tara R SemenkovichDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Bryan F MeyersDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH TRAINING: CARDIOPULMONARY SURGERYT32HL007776 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI DAMIANO, RALPH J · 1994 to 2020
$4.6M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There currently exists an area of controversy in treatment of esophageal cancer for patients who have an apparent clinical complete response (cCR) after induction chemoradiation. A standard treatment is to offer these patients an esophagectomy, but increasingly there is interest from both the patient and provider for active surveillance with so-called "salvage" esophagectomies for local recurrence as an alternative treatment paradigm. In this article, we review the existing evidence that stakeholders should consider for clinical decision-making in this specific patient population, including: the accuracy of post-induction clinical restaging, the reliability of operative risk assessment, the feasibility and adherence to surveillance strategies, and the observed outcomes in these patients after salvage esophagectomy or continued active surveillance. We also briefly discuss quality of life and future directions for this field.

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complete responseEsophageal cancersurveillance

Identifiers

PMID29666804
PMCPMC5890039
OpenAlexW2786274888

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