RESULTS OF SURGERY AND RADIOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF SMALL CARCINOMAS OF THE THORACIC ESOPHAGUS

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 11  (5) , 184-188
Abstract
The clinical features and results of treatment of 100 patients with small thoracic esophageal carcinoma first seen in surgery and then in radiotherapy were analyzed. The difference in mean ages between operated and irradiated series was 16 yr. The resectability rate of surgical series was 86%. It was possible to complete radical radiotherapy in 96% of cases. The 5-yr crude survival rate was 14% in the whole material. The 5-yr relative survival rates in operated and irradiated series were 26 and 5%, respectively. Both surgery and radiotherapy had a slightly better prognosis in the lower third of the thoracic esophagus. The comparison of these results with other esophageal carcinoma series was very difficult, because the series differ in many respects. Surgery followed by radiotherapy when resection is palliative, and radiotherapy when surgery is not possible apparently produce comparable results with any other method in the treatment of thoracic esophageal carcinoma.

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