教室における食道癌の手術成績

Abstract

During the last 11 years, from 1992 to 2002, 142 cases were operated on for esophageal cancer in our department. Operative procedures, clinicopathological findings and prognosis were investigated. The results were compared with those of other reports of treatment results of esophageal cancer in Japan. Age, sex, localization, macroscopic classification, histologic type, and histologic stage were almost the same as in those reports. Esophagectomy via posterior mediastinal route was often performed in our department. The five-year survival rate was 42% overall. The five-year survival rate was 100% in stage 0, 84% in stage I, 63% in stage IIA, 40% in stage IIB, 24% in stage III, 22.7% in stage IVA, and 0% in stage IVB. The survival rate was better than those of other reports.