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Present status on treatment of esophageal cancer in China

1990; Elsevier BV; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0360-3016(90)90118-4

1879-355X

Ding-Jiu Li,

Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

The treatment of carcinoma of the esophagus is a challenging problem to clinicians. The 5-year survival rate of surgery reported from large centers is about 25–30%, with resectability rate around 85–90% and operation mortality rate around 5%. However, this is based on highly selected cases. The 5-year survival rate of radiation therapy is about 9–16%, while the patients receiving radiation therapy were mostly the late cases. Pre-operative radiation seems to improve the results of surgery, but more randomized control clinical studies are needed. A combination of chemotherapy with radiation might improve the short-term response rates. Chemotherapy alone may provide some benefits for patients. Intracavitary microwave hyperthermia might open a possibility in the improvement of treatment results in combination with radiation and/or chemotherapy.