Radiotherapy Combing with Interventional Chemotherapy in Treating Advanced Esophageal Carcinoma / 实用放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the clinical value of radiotherapy combing with super selective esophageal intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy in advanced esophageal carcinoma. Methods 38 cases with medial or late stage of esophageal carcinoma wererandomly divided into two groups,the one group was treated with radiotherapy as the sole measure of treatment,while the other group was treated with radiotherapy combing with super selective esophageal intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy. All the patients were followed up within 3 to 24 months. Results In the most cases,the clinical symptoms and X-ray findings were improved obviously after treatment. But the rate of grade Ⅰof radiography was different obviously between two groups after different treatments.Conclusion Radiotherapy combing with interventional chemotherapy can increase drug concentration locally and therefore, has a better drug effect. On the other hand, it candecrease toxic reaction and can also decrease tumor volume effectively. So it can be a effective stratagem to those cases of locally advancedesophageal carcinoma which have poor reaction or severe radiotherapy reaction to merely radiotherapy.