Recurrence and prognostic model for identifying patients at risk for esophageal cancer after surgery

• Published in: Cancer management and research Vol. 10; pp. 6109 - 6120
• Main Authors: Chen, Dongni, Wang, Weidong, Chen, Youfang, Hu, Jia, Yang, Men, Mo, Junxian, Wen, Zhesheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand Dove Medical Press Limited 01.01.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Dove Medical Press
• Subjects: Biopsy; Cancer patients; Cancer therapies; Care and treatment; Chemotherapy; Collaboration; Committees; Endoscopy; Esophageal cancer; Health aspects; Lymphatic system; Medical prognosis; Metastasis; Migration; Mortality; Original Research; Patients; Prognosis; Radiation therapy; Recurrence; Recurrence (Disease); Regression analysis; Risk assessment; Studies; Surgery; Thoracic surgery; China; recurrence; model; esophageal cancer; prognosis; surgery

The aim of this study was to construct a risk model to assess overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with esophageal cancer (EC) after surgery. A total of 872 consecutive EC patients who had undergone surgery between February 2009 and October 2012 were retrospectively anal...