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Zhou S, Zhang L, Luo L, Li Q, Shen J, Feng Z, Feng Y, Yang H, Liu M, Xi M. Failure pattern of elective nodal irradiation for esophageal squamous cell cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Jpn J Clin Oncol 2018; 48:815-821. [PMID: 30053015 DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyy099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Objective To analyze the failure pattern and clinical efficacy of elective nodal irradiation in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 173 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients who received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy including elective nodal irradiation from 2002 to 2015. Failure pattern, survival and recurrence sites were analyzed. For patients with regional recurrences, the recurrence sites were analyzed in relation to an imaginary field of involved field irradiation. Results After a median follow-up of 55.5 months, 58 patients (33.5%) developed recurrences. Among 22 patients with regional recurrences, infield failure occurred in 19 patients (86.4%) and outfield failure occurred in 3 patients (13.6%), of whom only 1 patient had an outfield failure without synchronous distant metastasis. Compared with the involved field irradiation field, 6 patients' failure sites (27.3%) were located in the involved field irradiation field and 13 patients' failure sites (59.1%) were out of the involved field irradiation field but within the elective nodal irradiation field. Conclusions Since only a minority of patients had outfield regional recurrences, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy with elective nodal irradiation yields satisfactory infield control. More than half of the regional recurrences occurred within the elective nodal irradiation field but out of the involved field irradiation field. Prospective evaluation of whether elective nodal irradiation could lead to an improved survival outcome is necessary.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sha Zhou
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Imaging Diagnosis and Interventional Center, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System/Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China
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