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Ke Ma1, Yong Yang2, Shuai Wang1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Background:
The effect of neoadjuvant radiotherapy (NRT) was controversial in non-cervical esophageal cancer. The aim of this study was to identify which stage of non-cervical esophageal cancer would get benefit from NRT using propensity score matching (PSM) and survival analysis based on the Surveillance Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.
Methods:
A selection process was used for case screening from the SEER database. Seven baseline variables were included in PSM. The survival analysis were based on T stage (T2 and T3 ) and status of lymph node involvement (N0 and N+ ) using Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test for comparing the overall survival of patient with NRT plus surgery versus those who with surgery alone (SA).
Results:
A total of 1631 cases were included in this study. After PSM, 225 cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and 606 cases of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) were enrolled in survival analysis. We found that only T3 N+ stage of EAC would got survival benefit from NRT (P = 0.0052), while NRT showed no significant benefit in overall survival in other stages of EAC and ESCC.
Conclusions:
NRT followed by resection had a significant survival benefit in non-cervical EAC patients with T3 N+ stage. For patients with ESCC and other EAC stages, NRT versus SA did not demonstrate a statistical significant survival difference.
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