Higher pre-treatment skin sympathetic nerve activity and elevated resting heart rate after chemoradiotherapy predict worse esophageal cancer outcomes - Tang, Chen-Ling; Tsai, Wei-Chung; Lee, Jui-Ying; Wang, Yao-Kuang; Chen, Yi-Hsun; Liu, Yu-Wei; Lin, Ming-Chieh; Fang, Pen-Tzu; Huang, Yu-Ling; Wu, I-Chen (BMC cancer, 2022)
Keywords: Autonomic nerve system; Autonomic nervous system; Blood pressure; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Care and treatment; Chemoradiotherapy; Chemoradiotherapy - adverse effects; Chemoradiotherapy - methods; Chemotherapy; Electric stimulation; Electrocardiography; Esophageal cancer; Esophageal Neoplasms - pathology; Esophageal Neoplasms - therapy; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma - therapy; Health aspects; Heart beat; Heart Rate; Humans; Mortality; Patient outcomes; Patients; Prognosis; Questionnaires; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Resting heart rate; Skin; Skin sympathetic nerve activity; Software; Squamous cell carcinoma; Survival; Survival analysis; Sympathetic nerves; Sympathetic nervous system; Treatment Outcome; Taiwan; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Resting heart rate; Autonomic nerve system; Chemoradiotherapy; Survival; Skin sympathetic nerve activity