Remarkable response as a new indicator for endoscopic evaluation of local efficacy of non-surgical treatments for esophageal cancer

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In Japan, standard of care of the patients with resectable esophageal cancer is neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by esophagectomy. Patients unfitted for surgery or with unresectable locally advanced esophageal cancer are generally indicated with definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Local disease control is undoubtful important for the management of patients with esophageal cancer, therefore endoscopic evaluation of local efficacy after non-surgical treatments must be essential. The significant shrink of primary site after NAC has been reported as a good indicator of pathological good response as well as favorable survival outcome after esophagectomy. And patients who could achieve remarkable shrink to T1 level after CRT had favorable outcomes with salvage surgery and could be good candidates for salvage endoscopic treatments. Based on these data, "Japanese Classification of Esophageal Cancer, 12th edition" defined the new endoscopic criteria "remarkable response (RR)", that means significant volume reduction after treatment, with the subjective endoscopic evaluation are proposed. In addition, the finding of local recurrence (LR) at primary site after achieving a CR was also proposed in the latest edition of Japanese Classification of Esophageal Cancer. The findings of LR are also important for detecting candidates for salvage endoscopic treatments at an early timing during surveillance after CRT. The endoscopic evaluation would encourage us to make concrete decisions for further treatment indications, therefore physicians treating patients with esophageal cancer should be well-acquainted with each finding.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society - 21(2024), 2 vom: 01. März, Seite 85-94

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yano, Tomonori [VerfasserIn]
Hayashi, Yoshito [VerfasserIn]
Ishihara, Ryu [VerfasserIn]
Iijima, Katsunori [VerfasserIn]
Iwakiri, Katsuhiko [VerfasserIn]
Uesato, Masaya [VerfasserIn]
Oyama, Tsuneo [VerfasserIn]
Katada, Chikatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kawada, Kenro [VerfasserIn]
Kushima, Ryoji [VerfasserIn]
Tateishi, Yoko [VerfasserIn]
Fujii, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Manabe, Noriaki [VerfasserIn]
Minami, Hitomi [VerfasserIn]
Kawakubo, Hirofumi [VerfasserIn]
Tsubosa, Yasuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto, Sachiko [VerfasserIn]
Kadota, Tomohiro [VerfasserIn]
Minashi, Keiko [VerfasserIn]
Takeuchi, Hiroya [VerfasserIn]
Doki, Yuichiro [VerfasserIn]
Muto, Manabu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chemoradiotherapy
Chemotherapy
Endoscopy
Esophageal cancer
Journal Article
Local recurrence
Remarkable response
Review

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Date Completed 22.03.2024

Date Revised 22.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10388-024-01043-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368439380