Upper GI 2017

 Preoperative Chemoradiation  Planned Esophagectomy

• Phase III Trials RT( ± CT)  Surg vs Surg alone

 All SCC  RT Doses: 20-40 Gy  pCR ≈ 15%  Local Failure (LF): 20-58%  5 yy SVV: 10-30%

• Lanuois et al ; 1981 • Arnott et al ; 1992

• Wang et al ; 1989 • Gignoux et al ; 1987 • Nygaard et al ; 1992

No Statistical Difference