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2002-11-19
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The prognosis of patients with oesophageal cancer is poor, with an overall 5-year survival rate below 15%. The best chance for cure of patients with oesophageal cancer is surgical resection. However, more than 50% of patients have inoperable disease and can only be palliated for dysphagia. Some of these patients participate in studies investigating the activity of single-agent or combination chemotherapy. We report a patient who was cured of metastatic adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus by six courses of ifosfamide, a chemotherapeutic agent with little or no activity in other patients with adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus or gastro-oesophageal junction. After a follow-up of 13 years and 7 months, no evidence of tumour recurrence was found, while biopsies from the Barrett's oesophagus revealed only low-grade dysplasia. This case obviously raises the question as to how patients with inoperable oesophageal carcinoma can sometimes be cured by chemotherapy alone.
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eng
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IM
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MEDLINE
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NLM
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Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
1261-4
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2009-10-16
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Cure of Barrett's carcinoma by ifosfamide chemotherapy.
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Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Rotterdam - Dijkzigt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (representing the Rotterdam Oesophageal Tumour Study Group). siersema@mdl.azr.nl
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