Radiation dose in neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy for esophageal cancer: patterns of care and outcomes from the National Cancer Data Base

BACKGROUND: Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for locally advanced esophageal cancer (EC) may utilize a wide variety of RT doses, without clear consensus to date. This study evaluated national practice patterns between lower dose (LD) (40–41.4 Gy) or higher dose (HD) (50–50.4 Gy) therapy, in addit...

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Published in:J Gastrointest Oncol
Main Authors: Haque, Waqar, Verma, Vivek, Butler, E. Brian, Teh, Bin S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: AME Publishing Company 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848043/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564174
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jgo.2017.09.12
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