Surveillance Implications of Recurrence Patterns in Early Node-Negative Esophageal Adenocarcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are limited data regarding optimal surveillance after curative resection for esophageal cancer. Once disease recurrence is diagnosed, the prognosis is poor. The purpose of this article was to characterize disease recurrence in patients with early esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Methods

Two hundred sixty patients were identified from a prospective institutional database with pathologic T1 and T2 node-negative disease therapy treated with curative esophagectomy alone for esophageal adenocarcinoma between 1995 and 2017. Competing risk analysis was used to analyze factors associated with recurrence.

Results

The 5-year cumulative incidence of recurrence was 12%. Predictive factors for increased risk of recurrence included increasing tumor size, poor differentia

SUBMITTER: Nobel TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6878144 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature