Changes in Esophageal Cancer Treatment Over the Past Decade at Our Hospital

Pp: 167-172 (6)

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Changes in Esophageal Cancer Treatment Over the Past Decade at Our Hospital

Author(s): Nobutaka Hatanaka and Jeong Ho Moon

Pp: 167-172 (6)

DOI: 10.2174/9781681080239117010020

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Abstract

An esophagectomy with three-field lymph node dissection has been performed widely in Japan, but multidisciplinary therapy that uses a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy is necessary to improve the prognosis in patients with advanced esophageal cancer. Several new techniques have contributed to reducing post-operative complications and we have introduced some techniques into the treatment of esophageal cancer at our hospital.


Keywords: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, Oral care, Prone position, Respiratory rehabilitation, Thoracoscopic esophagectomy.

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