Impact of time from diagnosis to endoscopic submucosal dissection on curability in superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the time delay effect from initial diagnosis to endoscopic submucosal dissection on superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma curability, considering the preoperative invasion depth.

Methods

This study included superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma diagnosed as T1a-epithelial/lamina propria mucosa cancer (cEP/LPM; cancer invading up to the lamina propria mucosa) or cT1a-muscularis mucosa (MM)/T1b-submucosal cancer (cMM/SM1; cancer invading up to 200 µm into the submucosa) and treated using endoscopic submucosal dissection from January 2017 to December 2021. We compared curability in lesions treated within three months (early treatment group) versus those treated ≥7 months post-diagnosis (delayed treatment group). Curative resection crit

SUBMITTER: Sato D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11555296 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature