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Laser and photodynamic therapy for esophageal cancer
1St. Elizabeth Oncology Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia. bll@fmed.uniba.sk
Bratislavske Lekarske Listy
|July 4, 2003
Abstract:
Esophageal cancer has a poor prognosis. The diagnosis in clinical practise is often made in advanced stages when curative treatment is impossible. Overall five year survival is reached only in 10% of patients and a palliative treatment is indicated in 60% of patients. From these patients one year survival could be observed in 55% and five year survival only in about 20% of patients. Progressive dysphagia is responsible for the poor quality of life. (Ref. 4.).