Surveillance Strategy after Curative Resection for Oesophageal Squamous Cell Cancer Using the Hazard Function.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The optimal surveillance period and frequency after curative resection for oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) remain unclear, and current guidelines are mainly based on traditional Kaplan-Meier analyses of cumulative incidence rather than risk analysis. The aim of this study was to determine a suitable follow-up surveillance program following oesophagectomy for OSCC using the hazard function.

Methods

A total of 1187 patients who underwent curative resection for OSCC between 2000 and 2014 were retrospectively analyzed. The changes in the estimated hazard rates (HRs) of recurrence over time were analyzed according to tumour-node-metastasis stage.

Results

Four hundred seventy-eight (40.2%) patients experienced recurrence during the follow-up period (me

SUBMITTER: Kanematsu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9716854 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature