Effect of modern high-dose versus standard-dose radiation in definitive concurrent chemo-radiotherapy on outcome of esophageal squamous cell cancer: a meta-analysis

Abstract Background and objectives Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 94–05 has demonstrated that higher dose radiation didn’t improve outcome of patients with esophageal cancer (EC). However, several retrospective studies showed that a higher dose radiation based on modern radiotherapy techniq...

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Main Authors: He-San Luo, He-Cheng Huang, Lian-Xing Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-019-1386-x