RT Book, Section
A1 Hattangadi, Jona
A1 Mamon, Harvey
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Colson, Yolonda L.
A2 Jaklitsch, Michael T.
A2 Krasna, Mark J.
A2 Mentzer, Steven J.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1105839315
T1 Radiation Therapy in the Management of Esophageal Cancer
T2 Adult Chest Surgery, 2e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-178189-3
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105839315
RD 2024/04/25
AB Radiation  therapy  plays  an  important  role  in  the  multimodality  treatment  of  esophageal  cancer.  Only  30%  to  40%  of  patients  with  esophageal  cancer  have  potentially  resectable  disease  at  presentation.  In  combination  with  chemotherapy  in  the  neoadjuvant  setting,  radiation  has  been  shown  to  improve  survival  over  surgery  alone.  Radiation  also  can  be  very  effective  in  the  palliative  setting.  In  this  chapter,  we  discuss  the  general  background  and  data  on  the  use  of  radiation  in  the  management  of  esophageal  cancer.