...Xiaoqing Fan; Shan Wang; Kunyun Pan; Delong Wang; Ruiting Wang Introduction: Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is a common complication after surgical procedures. Radical resection of esophageal cancer is a complex procedure, one of the most extensive and traumatic surgical procedures in oncological...

...Patrick Mayr; Benedikt Martin; Verena Fries; Rainer Claus; Matthias Anthuber; Helmut Messmann; Gerhard Schenkirsch; Vera Blodow; Klaus Henning Kahl; Georg Stüben Introduction: Esophageal cancer (EC) is a common malignant tumor entity with increasing occurrence. The incidence of esophageal...

...Ze-Guo Zhuo; Yun-Ke Zhu; Han-Yu Deng; Gang Li; Jun Luo; Gu-Ha Alai; Yi-Dan Lin Introduction: Platinum is widely used in the treatment of esophageal cancer. In clinical practice, it is significant to distinguish patients who respond to platinum from those who do not. Excision repair cross...

...Chao Zhu; Yunhong You; Shichao Liu; Youxin Ji; Jinming Yu Background: Distant metastasis of esophageal cancer (EC) is prone to be neglected, so it is necessary to screen out the high-risk population for more sensitive and rigorous pretreatment imaging evaluations. Objective: The aim of this study...

...Huiping Zhu; Wei Pan; Yong Chen; Hui Chen; Yun Zuo; Xinchen Sun Definitive radiotherapy has an affirmative role in treating non-operable esophageal cancer; however, the controversy between elective lymph node irradiation (ENI) and involved-field irradiation (IFI) still remains. To ascertain...

...Tieming Xie; Zhimin Ye; Peipei Pang; Guoliang Shao Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the mid-treatment response to radiotherapy (RT) using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in patients with esophageal cancer (EC). Methods: 42 patients...

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...Maria Alsina; Markus Moehler; Sylvie Lorenzen Summary The majority of patients with esophageal cancer present with advanced disease and chemotherapy is the mainstay of palliation. However, efficacy is limited by the development of chemotherapy resistance and treatment options beyond first...

...; normal range 0-0.5 mg/l), which was most likely associated with the cancer disease. Chemotherapy Esophageal cancer Oxaliplatin Acute cardiotoxic side effects Oxaliplatin is a platinum-based antineoplastic agent used for the treatment of colorectal cancer and other...

...Jens Hoeppner; Birte Kulemann Summary Esophageal cancer (EC) is mostly diagnosed due to clinical symptoms such as dysphagia or anemia. Depending on the staging and the histological subtype, squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma, patients with non-metastasized disease mostly undergo neoadjuvant...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2017 Colorectal cancer Esophageal cancer Gastric cancer Hepatocellular carcinoma Pancreatic cancer AIDS Nowadays, HIV-infected patients may have a near-normal life expectancy if combination antiretroviral treatment...

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...', ‘VEGF-C expression', ‘esophageal carcinoma', and ‘esophageal cancer' were used as keywords to identify all English-language studies published until April 2014 that evaluated the association between VEGF-C expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of ESCC patients. The meta-analysis...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2015 Esophageal cancer Esophagectomy Radiation therapy Recurrence Prognosis The effect of postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) on esophageal cancer is constantly debated [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]. Several prospective randomized...

... Esophageal cancer Chemotherapy Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) is an uncommon variant of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) that mainly affects the upper aerodigestive tract. The oral cavity, the hypopharynx, and the larynx are the most common localizations [ 1 ]. The definition of a BSCC...