OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical effect of riboflavin sodium phosphate on prevention of radiotherapy related esophagitis (RRE). METHODS This retrospective study involved 55 patients with middle and advanced esophageal cancer who were divided into an experimental group of 28 and a control group of 27 patients. Those in the experimental group were treated with riboflavin sodium phosphate c...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of concurrent chemoradiation in patients with esophageal cancer aged 75 and older. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-two elderly patients were treated with concurrent chemoradiation. Seventeen received a combination of cisplatin/carboplatin and 5-fluorouracil, 5 received daily 5-fluorouracil. Total doses of radiotherapy ranged from 50 to 65 Gy. RES...

Recent linear accelerators can perform cone-beam computed tomography to correct setup errors immediately before dose delivery. We calculated the dose distribution with setup errors acquired from cone-beam computed tomography to determine a more realistic and individual effect of setup errors. The differences in dose distribution were analyzed. The setup errors of three patients who were irradia...

Treatment of esophageal stricture is important because esophageal stricture reduces the quality of life of patients by increasing their risks of dysphagia, weight loss, nutritional imbalance, and pneumonia due to aspiration. Esophageal stricture is mainly classified as benign or malignant esophageal stricture, and may occur as fibrous production and collagen deposition due to chronic ulceration...

Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of chemoradiotherapy(CRT) on survival of patients with unresectable esophageal cancer treated with radiotherapy combined with either concurrent DCF [docetaxel, cisplatin +5-fluorouracil(5-FU)] or CF [cisplatin and 5-FU).Patients and methods:Data of patients who underwent CRT for esophageal cancer during 2010 and 2015 in the department of ...

introduction: esophageal cancer is one of the most frequently occurring cancers in iran and having a  high  incidence  rate  among  other  countries.  radiotherapy  is  one  of  the  three  methods  (surgery,  radiotherapy and chemotherapy) for radical or palliative treatment of esophageal cancer. in this method  of treatment, the organs such as heart and spinal cord are regarded as organs at r...

: As the majority of patients experiences locoregional relapse and/or distant metastasis even after radical resection esophageal cancer, many efforts have been made and are ongoing to identify optimal multimodality treatment strategy. The true benefit harm neoadjuvant therapy including chemotherapy, radiotherapy or combination, is still difficult interpret given heterogeneity in patient tumor c...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of definitive chemo-radiation or radiotherapy alone in patients with esophageal cancer. We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of n = 238 patients with squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma of the esophagus treated with definitive radiotherapy with or without concomitant chemotherapy at our institution between...