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Oesophageal cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

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In the EU, the highest age-standardised incidence rates for oesophageal cancer are in the Netherlands for men and the UK for women, and variation between countries is high and may reflect different prevalence of risk factors, use of screening and diagnostic methods.
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This article is published in Annals of Oncology.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 810 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: European union & Cancer.

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Nivolumab Combination Therapy in Advanced Esophageal Squamous-Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared first-line chemotherapy for advanced esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma with the monoclonal antibody nivolumab plus chemotherapy.
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ESPEN Guidelines for Nutrition Screening 2002

TL;DR: These guidelines deliberately make reference to the year 2002 in their title to indicate that this version is based on the evidence available until 2002 and that they need to be updated and adapted to current state of knowledge in the future.
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Capecitabine and oxaliplatin for advanced esophagogastric cancer.

TL;DR: Capecitabine and oxaliplatin are as effective as fluorouracil and cisplatin, respectively, in patients with previously untreated esophagogastric cancer, in a two-by-two design.
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Perioperative Chemotherapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma: An FNCLCC and FFCD Multicenter Phase III Trial

TL;DR: In patients with resectable adenocarcinoma of the lower esophagus, GEJ, or stomach, perioperative chemotherapy using fluorouracil plus cisplatin significantly increased the curative resection rate, disease-free survival, and OS.
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Extended transthoracic resection compared with limited transhiatal resection for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.

TL;DR: Although median overall, disease-free, and quality-adjusted survival did not differ statistically between the groups, there was a trend toward improved long-term survival at five years with the extended transthoracic approach.
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Survival after neoadjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for resectable oesophageal carcinoma: an updated meta-analysis

TL;DR: This updated meta-analysis provides strong evidence for a survival benefit of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy over surgery alone in patients with oesophageal carcinoma and investigates treatment effects by tumour histology and relations between risk (survival after surgery alone) and effect size.
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