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ArticleJTCVS open2021

Residual lymph node disease and mortality following neoadjuvant chemoradiation and curative esophagectomy for distal esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Apostolos Kandilis, Carlos Bravo Iniguez, Hassan Khalil, Emanuele Mazzola, Michael T Jaklitsch, Scott J Swanson, Raphael Bueno, Jon O Wee

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Article in JTCVS open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Apostolos KandilisDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Carlos Bravo IniguezDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Hassan KhalilDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Emanuele MazzolaDepartment of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.
Michael T JaklitschDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Scott J SwansonDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Raphael BuenoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Jon O WeeDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: Neoadjuvant chemoradiation has been shown to improve survival in locally advanced esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer. The purpose of our study was to examine the effects of posttreatment persistent lymph node (LN) disease on overall survival (OS) and recurrence in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma after neoadjuvant chemoradiation as well as the effect of LN harvest and the potential benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy. Methods: The records of patients who underwent esophagectomy in our hospital from January 2005 until December 2016 were analyzed. Our study group consisted of 509 patients. Results: Patient groups were created based on pathologic staging after esophagectomy (ypT N) as 22.0% of patients were ypT0 N0, 46.2% had incomplete response only at the primary tumor level (ypT + N0), and 31.8% had at least 1 metastatic lymph node (ypTx N+). Median OS was 58.3 months. The ypTx N+ group was divided into ypTx N1 and ypTx N2 or N3 subgroups based on the number of metastatic lymph nodes. The OS between the 2 groups was not significantly different (median OS, 37.6 vs 29.8 months; Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that residual LN disease after neoadjuvant chemoradiation is associated with increased mortality. Adjuvant chemotherapy, but not number of LNs resected, was correlated with increased OS in this subset of patients.

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AC, adenocarcinomaadenocarcinoma esophagusadjuvant therapyCR, complete pathologic responseCT, computed tomographyDFS, disease free survivalesophageal cancerLN, lymph nodeNCDB, National Cancer DatabasenCRT, neoadjuvant chemoradiationnodal diseaseOS, overall survivalpathologic stagingpersistent nodal diseaseSCC, squamous cell carcinoma

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PMID36003158
PMCPMC9390677
OpenAlexW3112786744

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