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Ann Thorac Surg 1978;26:274-286
© 1978 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Carcinoma of the Esophagus

Ramon A. Cukingnan, M.D.*, Joseph S. Carey, M.D.

Thoracic Surgery Section, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital and UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

* Address reprint requests to Dr. Cukingnan, Chief, Thoracic Surgery (112G), Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 90073

Carcinoma of the esophagus continues to have a low 5-year cure rate despite advances in radical surgery and super-voltage radiation. Neither patient education nor newer diagnostic techniques have improved survival. The reported operative mortality is 4 to 30% for esophagogastrostomy and 10 to 44% for colon interposition. Average survival time with surgery is 11 to 28 months and 5 to 11 months with irradiation. Local recurrence is high (33 to 76%) with irradiation. The reported 5-year survival rate with preoperative irradiation followed by surgery is higher (14 to 25%).

Recent reports have concentrated on improving functional rehabilitation rather than improving cure rates. Palliative surgery is more acceptable because of lowered operative morbidity and mortality and the high complication rate with radiation therapy for far advanced disease.

New approaches of interest include fundoplication added to esophagogastrostomy, substernal gastric bypass with anastomosis in the neck, reversed gastric tube (Heimlich operation), the addition of postoperative rather than preoperative irradiation in patients with potentially curable lesions, the use of preoperative hyperalimentation, and the potential application of immunotherapy.




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