Esophageal cancer surgery is complex, and the risk of complications is higher than for many other surgeries. Immediately after surgery, patients cannot eat anything. Often, a surgeon will obtain x-ray imaging while the patient drinks contrast to assess if there is a leak through the anastomosis,...
Surgery in Esophageal Cancer: How Radical Should It BeDIGESTIVE SURGERY -BASEL-WongJ.
Surgery: An esophagectomy is the most common treatment for early-stage esophageal cancer. It involves removing some or most of your esophagus and surrounding tissue. Surgeons create a new esophagus by pulling up part of your stomach into your chest and ne...
Esophagectomy remains the cornerstone as part of a multidisciplinary team management for patients with cancer of the esophagus. It used to be an operation with high risk of mortality. With improvement in patient selection, surgical technique and perioperative care, death from surgery has become uncommo...
radical oncologic surgerysuperficial esophageal cancerIn recent years, multiple new endoscopic therapies, which are far less invasive compared with radical surgery with lymphadenectomy, have become available for the treatment of Barrett's esophagus an......
Stage IV. Esophageal cancer at this stage is hard to get rid of, so surgery to try to cure it is rarely an option. Treatment will aim to control the cancer for as long as possible and minimize symptoms as much as possible. Chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy may ...
Principles of esophageal cancer surgery, including surgical approaches and optimal node dissection (2- vs. 3-field) Philippe Nafteux, Lieven Depypere, Hans Van Veer, Willy Coosemans, Toni Lerut Full Text (11397) | PDF | Open Access Pages: 152-158 Future directions in esophageal cancer th...
In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Allan Pickens, MD, discussed research on racial disparities in surgery for esophageal cancer. Allan Pickens, MD While advancements in multimodal treatments have been made in the esophageal cancer space, improving patient outcomes, they have not benefited all rac...
Surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy for esophageal cancerB. van Lanschot, J. Jan MD; Letschert, Joke G.J. MD; Veenhof, Cees H.N. MDAbstract Current surgical research addresses the optimal approach to potentially curative resection. Several retrospective studies indicate that the transhi...
esophageal cancer surgery. Adult patients (922) underwent elective esophageal cancer surgery were included. The patients were divided into two groups according to the anesthetics administered during surgery: volatile anesthesia (VA) or intravenous anesthesia with propofol (TIVA). Propensity score and Cox...