@article{JGO23337,
author = {Caitlin Takahashi and Ravi Shridhar and Jamie Huston and Kenneth Meredith},
title = {Clinical fate of T0N1 esophageal cancer: results from the National Cancer Database},
journal = {Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology},
volume = {9},
number = {5},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {The long-term survival for patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer (EC) remains poor despite improvements in multi-modality care. Neoadjuvant chemoradiation (NCR) followed by surgical resection remains pivotal in the management of patients with EC. However, the outcome of patients whose primary tumor exhibits a complete response with residual regional nodal disease (T0N1) remains unclear as well as the role for adjuvant therapy.Utilizing the National Cancer Database we identified patients with EC who underwent NCR followed by esophagectomy who had subsequent pathology of T0N1. Baseline univariate comparisons of patient characteristics were made for continuous variables using both the Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests as appropriate. Pearson’s Chi-square test was used to compare categorical variables. Unadjusted survival analyses were performed using the Kaplan-Meier method comparing survival curves with the log-rank test. All statistical tests were two-sided and α (type I) error },
issn = {2219-679X}, url = {https://jgo.amegroups.org/article/view/23337}
}