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ReviewAnnals of gastroenterological surgery2020

Multidisciplinary treatment of esophageal cancer: The role of active surveillance after neoadjuvant chemoradiation.

Tania Triantafyllou, Bas Wijnhoven

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Review in Annals of gastroenterological surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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2 authors.

Tania TriantafyllouDepartment of Surgery Hippocration General Hospital of Athens National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4010-2389
Bas WijnhovenDepartment of Surgery Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam the Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The optimal treatment of esophageal cancer is still controversial. Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by radical esophagectomy is a standard treatment. Morbidity after esophagectomy however is still considerable and has an impact on patients' quality of life. Given a pathologic complete response rate of approximately 30% in patients after neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery, active surveillance has been introduced as a new alternative approach. Active surveillance involves regular clinical response evaluations in patients after neoadjuvant therapy to detect residual or recurrent disease. As long as there is no suspicion of disease activity, surgery is withheld. Esophagectomy is reserved for patients presenting with an incomplete response or resectable recurrent disease. Active surveillance after neoadjuvant treatment has been previously applied in other types of malignancy with encouraging results. This paper discusses its role in esophageal cancer.

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active surveillanceesophageal cancerneoadjuvant chemoradiationsalvage surgery

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PMID32724878
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