scholarly journals Comparison of Outcomes Between McKeown and Sweet Esophagectomy in the Elderly Patients for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 107327482090470
Author(s):  
Dongni Chen ◽  
Yihuai Hu ◽  
Youfang Chen ◽  
Jia Hu ◽  
Zhesheng Wen

The aim of this study was to compare the perioperative outcomes and long-term survival rates of the McKeown and Sweet procedures in patients with esophageal cancer younger than 70 years or older than 70 years. A total of 1432 consecutive patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) who received surgery at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center from January 2009 to October 2012 were analyzed. Propensity score matching was used to balance the clinical characteristics of the patients who underwent different surgical approaches, and 275 and 71 paired cases were matched among those younger and older than 70 years, respectively. The prognosis and postoperative outcomes were compared between the McKeown and the Sweet esophagectomy. For patients younger than 70 years, those who underwent the McKeown procedure had better overall survival (OS) than those in the Sweet group (log rank = 4.467; P = .035). However, no significant difference in disease-free survival and OS was observed between two approaches for the elderly patients (log rank = 1.562; P = .211 and log rank = 0.668; P = .414, respectively). Cox regression analysis revealed that McKeown approach was a positive prognostic factor compared to the Sweet approach for patients younger than 70 years in univariable analysis (HR = 0.790; 95% CI, 0.625-0.997; P = .047), whereas the surgical approach was not significantly related to the prognosis in the elderly patients. For patients older than 70 years, the occurrence of anastomotic fistula increased in those who underwent the McKeown procedure (23.9% vs 11.3%, P = .038, for the McKeown and Sweet esophagectomy, respectively). The McKeown approach increases the OS in younger patients with ESCC. However, for patients older than 70 years, the Sweet approach was proven to be an effective therapy, given the better perioperative outcomes and similar long-term survival compared with patients in the McKeown group.

Surgery ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Bona ◽  
Francesca Lombardo ◽  
Kazuhide Matsushima ◽  
Marta Cavalli ◽  
Caterina Lastraioli ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao hong Liu ◽  
Mingqiu Chen ◽  
Chun Han ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Yidian Zhao ◽  
...  

Abstract Aim The aim of the present study was to investigate the prognostic factors in elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) or radiotherapy alone (RT-alone), and to establish the efficacy of CRT. Methods The clinical data of patients with ESCC treated with RT-alone or CRT were collected and retrospectively reviewed. The overall survival (OS) rates and the clinical characteristics correlated with survival were analyzed statistically. Propensity score matching (PSM) analyses were used to compensate for differences in baseline characteristics between the CRT and RT-alone groups to confirm the survival difference. Results A total of 729 patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were reviewed. Diabetes, primary tumor volume (pTV), primary tumor location (pTLo), clinical T stage,(cT) clinical N stage (cN), clinical M stage (cM) and short-term response to RT were independent factors influencing OS (P=0.002-0.044). The 5-year OS rate was 26.6%, 26.0% and 30.1% in the whole cohort, RT-alone and CRT groups, respectively. The survival difference between RT alone and CRT was not significant before or following PSM. Compared with the corresponding subgroups treated with RT alone, CRT significantly benefited patients with diabetes (P=0.003), cT4 (P=0.030) and cN0 (P=0.049), whereas no benefit was identified between CRT and RT alone in the other subgroups, including cT1-3, cN1, cM, pTLo, pTV, age and gender. Conclusions CRT with the current chemotherapy regimens may not improve the survival of elderly ESCC patients compared to RT-alone, except in patients with cT4 stage, cN0 stage or diabetes. However, due to the limitation of the retrospective nature of the current study, further clinical trials are required for confirmation. Key words: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy; Elderly; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Survival


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ming He ◽  
Zhan Qi ◽  
Rong Qiu ◽  
Yuanping Hu ◽  
Juan Li ◽  
...  

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the most common pathological type of esophageal cancer in China. Patients with ESCC have poor long-term survival, especially those with lymphatic metastasis (pN + ESCC). In this retrospective study, we evaluated the correlates of long-term survival time of patients with pN + ESCC. A total of 453 patients with pN + ESCC who underwent surgical R0 resection between Jan 2008 and Sep 2011 were enrolled. The follow-up ended on December 2019. The clinical, pathological, inflammation-related factors and general survival data of these patients were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 software. The 1-, 3-, and 5-year overall survival (OS) rates were 73.7%, 34.6%, and 25.6%, respectively; the 1-, 3-, and 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) rates were 45.0%, 26.3%, and 20.4%, respectively. The median OS and DFS were 23 and 14 months, respectively. On multivariate analyses, gender, site of lesion, number of dissected lymph nodes, stage pTNM, adjuvant therapy, and neutrophil lymphocyte ratio were independent predictors of OS. Site of lesion, stage pTNM, and adjuvant therapy were independent predictors of DFS. Recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) scores of each patient were calculated based on the independent predictors of OS, and the patients were divided into 3 classes: low-risk, medium-risk, and high-risk. The OS, DFS, and local recurrence-free survival were significantly different among these three RPA classes P < 0.001 . Several factors showed an independent association with long-term postoperative survival of pN + ESCC patients after radical surgery. RPA scores can potentially be used to predict the prognosis of ESCC.


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