Recent effects of radiotherapy combined with gastroscopic radiofrequency for advanced esophageal cancer / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the recent effects of radiotherapy plus gastroscopic radiofrequency for advanced esophageal cancer.Methods The date of 53 patients were retrospectively reviewed.The obstruction of the same period, endoscopic classifica-tion, pathology staging similar in 53 patients with advanced esophageal cancer were contrasted .All patients underwent conventional ra -diotherapy.The treatment group the first day radiofrequency and afterwards within 8 hours the start of radiotherapy.Results The median time to appear the eat obstruction improvement for the combined group was the fourth day and the eighteenth day for the control group.The difference between two groups was statistically significant ( P 0.05).The objective alleviation rate after esophagus pathology radio -therapy, for the combined group, was 96.2% and 88.7% for the contrasted group.No difference in statistically significant ( P >0.05) was for both groups.1-year local control rate was respectively 69.8% and 56.6%.The survival rate was 75.5% and 62.3%. There was no difference in statistically significant ( P >0.05).Conclusions The treatment of radiofrequency in gastroscopy chamber can rapidly improve the patients'eating situation, enhance the patients'fitness, enable the smooth radiotherapy, and make a good foun-dation for the concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy to improve the effect on the treatment to esophageal cancer .