Tetsuo Nonaka, Shohei Kawashiro, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Yoshinori Ito, Kenji Nemoto, Ryu Ishihara, Takashi Oyama, Tsuneo Oyama, Ken Kato, Hiroyuki Kato, Hirofumi Kawakubo, Hiroshi Kawachi, Shiko Kuribayashi, Koji Kono, Takashi Kojima, Hiroya Takeuchi, Takahiro Tsushima, Yasushi Toh, Eisuke Booka, Tomoki Makino, Satoru Matsuda, Hisahiro Matsubara, Masayuki Mano, Keiko Minashi, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Manabu Muto, Taiki Yamaji, Tomoki Yamatsuji, Masahiro Yoshida, Yuko Kitagawa
This systematic review was performed to investigate the superiority of proton beam therapy (PBT) to photon-based radiotherapy (RT) in treating esophageal cancer patients, especially those with poor cardiopulmonary function. The MEDLINE (PubMed) and ICHUSHI (Japana Centra Revuo Medicina) databases were searched from January 2000 to August 2020 for studies evaluating one end point at least as follows; overall survival, progression-free survival, grade ≥ 3 cardiopulmonary toxicities, dose-volume histograms, or lymphopenia or absolute lymphocyte counts (ALCs) in esophageal cancer patients treated with PBT or photon-based RT...
October 2023: Esophagus: Official Journal of the Japan Esophageal Society