作者: Kees Welvaart , Robert J. L. Caspers , Robert J. Verkes , Jo Hermans
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摘要: The choice of treatment for patients with cancer the esophagus and cardia is controversial. Since overall survival poor, most important aim should be improvement main complaint: inability to eat. In a retrospective analysis 265 patients, referred University Hospital in Leiden, Netherlands, comparisons were made between palliative effects surgical resection (N = 92) irradiation 128). Several methods comparing surgery are possible: (1) all vs. irradiated patients; (2) only those who survived operation 70) 128); (3) survivors after treated "curative" radiation 62). Analysis prognostic factors showed that both statistically significant factor was (dis)ability Criteria considered make individual recommendations either presented.