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66 consecutive patients with a tumor confined to the cervical esophagus underwent surgical resection. The comparison between clinical and pathological TNM stage showed a clinical understaging in 30 patients. 25 of the 56 patients who had undergone curative resection had lymph node metastases: positive mediastinal and abdominal nodes were found in 8 (32%) and 0 cases, respectively. The mean survival after curative resection of the 10 evaluable patients with metastatic periesophageal, recurrent and/or paratracheal nodes was 22.4 months; of the 6 evaluable patients with positive mediastinal nodes it was 10.3 months; and of the 5 patients with positive deep latero-cervical nodes it was 5.8 months. The 2-year actuarial survival after curative resection (in the 53 operative survivors) was as follows (according to pathologic TNM staging): Stage I (n = 3) 100%, Stage IIA (n = 17) 30%, Stage IIB (n = 3) 33%, and Stage III (n = 30) 22%. The exact location of neoplastic recurrence after curative resection was documented in 13 cases; it was in the neck in 8 cases (61%); both neck and at a distance in 3 cases (23%) and only at a distance in 2 (16%). The clinical TNM staging of cervical esophageal cancer was not in agreement with the pathological findings in nearly 50% of the cases and is, therefore, inaccurate and unreliable both for therapeutic decision-making and for prognostic evaluations. Endoscopic ultrasound, which was not used in most of the patients studied here, may improve the accuracy of clinical TNM staging. The N classification, which defines only the cervical nodes as regional nodes, appears to be arbitrary since the pathological staging showed metastatic mediastinal nodes in 32% of the N + cases, with a survival comparable to that of patients with metastatic nodes only in the neck. The prognostic value of pathological TNM staging was not confirmed in the present study since only Stage I patients had a significantly better prognosis than patients in the other stages. This may be due to the small number of patients considered or to lymph node understaging caused by the fact that most patients did not undergo mediastinal lymphadenectomy through a thoracotomy or a sternum splitting.
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PMID:[Critical analysis of the new TNM staging (UICC, 1987) of cancer of the cervical esophagus in relation to therapeutic decisions]. 170 70

Twenty-eight patients with synchronous esophageal and head and neck epidermoid cancers have been treated by a combined protocol including esophagectomy. Seventy-nine percent received pre-operative chemotherapy, 50% had resection of the head and neck lesion at the same time as the esophagectomy and 79% received post-operative irradiation. Two patients died during the post-operative period (7%), and 1, 2 and 3-yr survival rate (Kaplan-Meier) was respectively 64, 32 and 27%. Contrary to our initial assumption, there was no significant decrease in survival compared to patients operated on for an isolated esophageal cancer. The patients were divided into 4 very simple prognostic groups based on the T and N stages of the clinical pre-therapeutic TNM classification: T1 or T2 for esophageal lesions and different T or N stages according to the prognosis for head and neck lesions. A study of each group tended to show that esophagectomy was beneficial except in cases of synchronous T2 esophageal cancer and locally advanced head and neck cancer (there was 2-yr survival in this group). The 28 patients studied represent a particular population which presented 91 cancerous localisations during the duration of the study (mean: 3.25 localisations per patient).
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PMID:[Synchronous cancers of the esophagus and of the ORL area: results of combined treatments with esophagectomy (28 cases)]. 203 88

Survival after surgical resection of esophageal carcinoma is highly related to stage. The latest staging classifications (UICC/AJCC, 1987/1988) use the TNM system. Accumulating data show endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) to be consistently more accurate than CT in pre-operative staging of depth of tumor invasion. Detailed images of the esophageal wall obtained by EUS allow accurate staging even in early cancer where CT is ineffective. EUS is also more accurate than CT in staging regional lymph nodes, but is less accurate than CT in staging distant metastases due to tumor stenosis in some patients and limited depth of field. EUS has also been shown to be accurate in diagnosing post-operative recurrence of cancer in the area of the surgical anastomosis. EUS represents a major advance in the clinical staging of esophageal cancer.
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PMID:Esophageal carcinoma: pre-operative staging and evaluation of anastomotic recurrence. 218 79

In a series of 160 patients submitted to esophageal resection because of cancer, four cases were found who have been partially gastrectomized for benign stomach or duodenal ulcer decades ago (2.5%). An other similar case was detected by endoscopy and aimed biopsy. In the sixth patient, the cancer developed simultaneously in the gastric remnant and in the distal jejunum loop after partial gastrectomy of Billroth--II. type. Two esophageal cancers of the above-mentioned four resected specimens, were in the T1 stage according to TNM classification of UICC. One tumour of the later two esophageal carcinomas did not reveal any clinical sign. The patient had at the same time early invasive cancer in the gallbladder and synchronously a renal cell carcinoma in the left kidney. The main clinical symptoms of the last patient could be attributed to the gallstone disease. The esophageal carcinomas that developed after partial gastrectomy did not show any difference neither in localization, in the macro- or in the microscopical features nor in the chronic esophagitis and epithelial dysplasia in comparison with other esophageal cancer of patients who were not submitted to partial gastrectomy. Attention must be called to the significance of reflux-esophagitis which can occur with partial gastrectomy. The follow-up of such patients is doubly important if the forceps biopsy detected epithelial dysplasia in the esophagus. On the other hand, the reconstruction of HIS-angle during partial gastrectomy is very important in the prevention of reflux-esophagitis.
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PMID:[Digestive tract tumors after gastrectomy of peptic ulcer]. 273 11

Nine inoperable patients with squamous esophageal cancer were selected from 112 patients treated with combination chemo-radiotherapy. The criteria of selection were: 1) localized cancer (T1 or T2 of the TNM classification), 2) complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy suggesting the possibility of a good survival, 3) and 65 Gy-irradiation in the previous tumor bed. Eight of these 9 carcinomas recurred locally after a median delay of 12.6 months after the end of the treatment (extremes: 2 and 30 months). Only one patient is free of disease 24 months after the end of the treatment. These results point out that this chemo-radiotherapeutic association is disappointing in the long term in terms of loco-regional tumoral control and survival, but appeared to be good palliative treatment. This is an argument against the attitude of physicians who currently recommended a non-surgical strategy and deny the value of surgery. The carcinologic surgical excision of esophageal cancers is still the best treatment today. It must be performed whenever it is feasible, possibly associated with complementary treatments (evaluated in prospective studies).
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PMID:[Epidermoid cancer of the esophagus. Does the efficacy of chemoradiotherapy justify surgical abstention?]. 281 46

Between 1978 and 1983, ninety-three patients with cancer of the hypopharynx were treated. They were evaluated as to sex, age, primary site, TNM classification, stage, habits of smoking and drinking, past history of irradiation, treatment modality and end results. Eighty-seven percent of the patients visited us at as late a stage as advanced stage III or IV, and were treated mainly by combined therapy involving irradiation and pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy. The 3-year and 5-year survival rates were 38.6% and 33.3%, respectively. After December 1983, 14 new patients with advanced disease including three with coervical esophageal cancer were treated with neo-adjuvant combination chemotherapy which included cisplatin, peplomycin, methotrexate, and bleomycin over two courses of therapy. The response rate (CR + PR) was high, being 82% for the primary tumor and 78% for the metastatic node. Histopathological effects of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy were studied in the resected specimens. The evaluation was based on the Ohboshi-Shimosato classification. The histological effects did not agree with the clinical effects. Grade II b change was evaluated mostly in CR cases and grade II a change was seen in PR cases. It thus seems that neo-adjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery and/or radiation including cisplatin and other agents is very useful as a multidisciplinary treatment for cancer of the hypopharynx.
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PMID:[Combination therapy of hypopharyngeal cancer]. 359 15

Preoperative CT scans of 33 patients with esophageal cancer were reviewed to assess staging accuracy and define the role of CT in patients being considered for transhiatal blunt esophagectomy. Surgical and pathological verification was obtained in all cases. Only 13 tumors were staged correctly according to the TNM classification. In addition, CT was not useful in assessing resectability because of its low accuracy in evaluating aortic invasion and the fact that few patients had tracheobronchial or aortic invasion or hepatic metastases at presentation.
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PMID:Esophageal carcinoma: CT findings. 397 98

An ongoing analysis of 762 patients with esophageal cancer revealed 4 (0.52%) male patients with synchronous hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A long history of habitual alcohol intake and heavy cigarette smoking was recognized in all four patients and, therefore, the possibility of these two factors being independent risk factors for this double cancer was suggested. Palliative treatment was undertaken since either one or both cancers were too far advanced, or because liver function was poor even in those patients with resectable cancers. The prognosis correlated more closely to the TNM stage of esophageal cancer rather than the HCC and the causes of death were related to the esophageal cancer in all four patients. These findings suggest that, in patients with this combination of double cancer, the state of the esophageal cancer may be a more reliable prognostic factor than that of the HCC and thus, the curability of esophageal cancer is of primary importance.
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PMID:The clinical characteristics of patients with synchronous squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus and hepatocellular carcinoma. 753 78

The prognostic value of cell nuclear DNA content, S-phase fraction and p53 protein accumulation in esophageal squamous-cell carcinomas was studied in a consecutive series of 80 patients from a high-incidence region of southern Thailand, who underwent esophagectomy between 1983 and 1993. Flow cytometry was used to determine tumor ploidy, DNA index and S-phase fraction, while p53 protein accumulation was evaluated immunohistochemically using the monoclonal anti-p53 antibody, CO7. Biomarkers were correlated with clinico-pathologic findings and survival by univariate and multivariate analysis. p53 protein was found in 40 tumors (50%), and was associated with significantly reduced overall survival. In patients with immunopositive tumors, depth of primary tumor invasion, lymph-node status. TNM stage and tumor grade were also significant prognostic factors. Additional predictors of reduced overall survival after esophagectomy, determined by flow cytometry, included S-phase fraction above 10%, aneuploidy (DNA index 1.2-1.8) and multiploidy (DNA index > 2.2). This study further implicates p53 in the pathogenesis of esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma. Prognostic factors such as p53 protein, S-phase fraction and DNA index may be useful in stratifying patients for adjuvant therapies in future clinical trials of esophageal cancer.
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PMID:Prognostic value of DNA index, S-phase fraction and p53 protein accumulation after surgical resection of esophageal squamous-cell carcinomas in Thailand. 759 Dec 36

Between 1986 and 1991, 35 patients with esophageal cancer (TNM stages II-IV) underwent transthoracic esophagectomy with lymph adenectomy and were subsequently treated with 5,000 cGy of radiation (days 1-40) and concurrently with two courses of chemotherapy (cisplatin, vindesine and pepleomycin, days 21-26 and 49-54). Results were compared with those of 26 historical control patients, treated with radiation since 1981. Tolerance in all patients was good. The survival rate at 5 years was significantly improved for the multimodality-treated patients (30.9 +/- 9.4%), as compared with findings in historical controls (5.1 +/- 4.8%). The concurrent chemoradiation therapy using these three drugs following extensive surgery is worthy of consideration for patients with a localized esophageal cancer.
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PMID:Cisplatin, vindesine, pepleomycin and concurrent radiation therapy following esophagectomy with lymph adenectomy for patients with an esophageal carcinoma. 768 20


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