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Brief Title: Involved Field Irradiation (IFI) Versus Elective Nodal Irradiation (ENI) for Esophageal Cancer
Official Title: Multicenter Prospective Randomized Phase III Trial Comparing Elective to Prophylactic Regional Lymph Node Irradiation for Thoracic Esophageal Cancer
Study ID: NCT01551589
Brief Summary: This study examines contrast advantages and disadvantages of elective or prophylactic nodal irradiation in the treatment of esophageal cancer with three-dimensional conformed radiotherapy.
Detailed Description: Esophageal lymph node drainage area is rich, according to different sites, easy to metastasis to different regions. For patient underwent concurrent chemoradiotherapy, how reasonable design the clinical target volume of lymph node drainage area has always been controversial, one is to irradiate positive lymph nodes only, the other is to irradiate the easier involved lymph node area according to different sites, in order to contrast advantages and disadvantages of the two kind of target area design,so the study was designed.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Guangxi Tumor Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi, China
GuiZhou Cancer Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
The Second People's Hospital of Sichuan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Yunnan Tumor Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of KUNMING Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Name: JINYI LANG, M.D.
Affiliation: The Second People's Hospital of Sichuan
Role: STUDY_CHAIR