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Review
. 2021 Apr 30;59(236):409-416.
doi: 10.31729/jnma.4299.

Management of Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer

Binay Thakur  1 , Mukti Devkota  1 , Manish Chaudhary  1
Affiliations
Review

Management of Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer

Binay Thakur et al. JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. .

Abstract

Esophageal cancer is diagnosed usually at a locally advanced stage. Surgery alone has less optimal results and a multimodality approach has been established as the standard of care for cII-III stages of esophageal cancer. This review focuses on the recent evidences of management of esophageal cancer with various variations in approaches in Eastern and Western countries. The major difference is the selection of induction treatment. Till the results of some ongoing trials become available, most of the evidences support neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery for squamous cell carcinoma and perioperative chemotherapy and surgery for adenocarcinoma.

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