Abstract
Background
Recently, definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT) has become one of the essential treatment strategies for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and has been especially gaining prevalence for cervical ESCC to preserve the larynx. Our department recently introduced dCRT concomitant with docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (DCF-R) for treating advanced cervical ESCC. This study aims to assess the safety and outcomes of DCF-R in patients with advanced cervical ESCC.
Methods
We retrospectively assessed 11 patients with advanced cervical ESCC (clinical stage: II–IV, including T4b and/or M1 lymph node) who received DCF-R as the first-line treatment between December 2010 and February 2015.
Results
Our patient cohort comprised 8 males and 3 females (median age 68 years; range 54–76 years). The pretreatment clinical stage included stage II (1), stage III (7), and stage IV (3) cases [including 3 patients with T4b (2 trachea and 1 thyroid) and 3 patients with M1 lymph node]. We attained complete response (CR) in 10 patients and stable disease in 1 patient. Of 10 patients with CR, 5 experienced recurrence and 5 continued exhibiting CR. Furthermore, grade 3 or more adverse events included leucopenia (91%), neutropenia (91%), febrile neutropenia (45%), and pharyngeal pain (55%). While the 2-year overall survival rate was 72%, the 2-year recurrent-free survival rate was 64%, respectively.
Conclusions
DCF-R treatment for advanced cervical esophageal cancer could be completed by the careful administration; although a strong blood toxicity might occur, this treatment may provide the chance to obtain favorable prognosis with larynx preservation.
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This study was approved by the ethical committee of our institute (accession number: 2017-4-064), and we obtained informed consent from all patients before enrollment. We conducted this study in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (1975).
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Okamoto, H., Taniyama, Y., Sakurai, T. et al. Definitive chemoradiotherapy with docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (DCF-R) for advanced cervical esophageal cancer. Esophagus 15, 281–285 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10388-018-0627-7
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