[News in gastrointestinal radiotherapy: The esophageal cancer]

Abstract

Esophageal cancers continue to have a poor prognosis, even if this has improved over the past 25 years due to better management. Pre-operative chemotherapy with Paclitaxel-Carboplatin followed by adjuvant immunotherapy with Nivolumab represents a major advance in the management of locally advanced oesophageal cancer. Pre-operatively, chemo-radiotherapy can be performed in combination with FOLFOX or Paclitaxel-Carboplatin. Several trials are currently ongoing to evaluate the benefit of immunotherapy in non-operable cancers. In contrast, dose escalation in locally advanced non-operable tumors and the combination of pre-operative chemo-radiotherapy with trastuzumab have not been shown to be beneficial.

Keywords: Cancer; Esophagus; Radiotherapy; Radiothérapie; Œsophage.