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Staging Laparoscopy for Esophageal Cancer

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The overall 5-year survival rate of esophageal cancer even after resection with clear margins (RO resection) ranges only between 10% and 20%, demonstrating the dismal prognosis of this disease. Controlled randomized trials suggested that combined modality therapy may improve outcome of those patients with operable disease and without distant metastases particularly following the approach of preoperative radiation plus chemotherapy [16]. In comparison, there are no convincing data from prospectively randomized trials documenting an advantage of postoperative adjuvant chemo- or radiotherapy [5].

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  1. Division of Surgery and Surgical Oncology Charité, Robert-Roessle Hospital, Humboldt University, Lindenberger Weg 80, 13222, Berlin, Germany

    Peter Hohenberger

  2. Gastric & Mixed Tumor Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    K. Conlon MD, MBA, FACS

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Rau, B., Hünerbein, M., Hohenberger, P., Schlag, P.M. (2002). Staging Laparoscopy for Esophageal Cancer. In: Hohenberger, P., Conlon, K. (eds) Staging Laparoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56290-7_5

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