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Esophageal Cancer

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Esophageal cancer is a highly malignant disease with a cure rate of less than 20%. Less than 40% of patients present with localized and resectable disease. Both surgery and combined chemoradiation therapy are important therapeutic modalities in curative treatment for esophageal cancer. Radiation therapy plays an important role in palliation of symptoms caused by advanced local or metastatic disease.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074, Singapore

    Jiade J. Lu MD, MBA

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    Jiade J. Lu MD, MBA (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor) (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor)

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, 270 Dong An Road, Shanghai, 200232, P.R. China

    Jiade J. Lu MD, MBA (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor) (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor)

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    Luther W. Brady MD (Hylda Cohn/American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology, and Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Distinguished University Professor) (Hylda Cohn/American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology, and Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Distinguished University Professor)

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Lu, J.J. (2008). Esophageal Cancer. In: Lu, J.J., Brady, L.W. (eds) Radiation Oncology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77385-6_12

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