Palliative resection or radiation of primary tumor prolonged survival for metastatic esophageal cancer.

Related Articles Palliative resection or radiation of primary tumor prolonged survival for metastatic esophageal cancer. Cancer Med. 2019 12;8(17):7253-7264 Authors: Xu J, Lu D, Zhang L, Li J, Sun G Abstract PURPOSE: We aimed to explore the value of palliative resection or radiation of primary tumor for metastatic esophageal cancer (EC) patients. METHODS: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database was used for identifying metastatic EC patients. The patients were divided into resection and nonresection groups. And patients without resection were divided into radiation and nonradiation groups. Propensity score matching (PSM) analyses were adopted to reduce the baseline differences between the…
Origen: Palliative resection or radiation of primary tumor prolonged survival for metastatic esophageal cancer. – PubMed