A study of concurrent chemoradiotherapy with weekly docetaxel and cisplatin for advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with T4 and/or M1 lymph node metastasis or locoregional recurrence

Abstract Background The improvement of survival outcomes and the reduction of toxicities for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are still needed. We conducted a pilot study of concurrent chemoradiotherapy with weekly docetaxel and cisplatin for the treatment of esophageal SCC with T4 and/or M1...

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Main Authors: Qi Liu, Yi Xia, Yun Chen, Junhua Zhang, Jiaying Deng, Kuaile Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-020-01518-2