Future directions in esophageal cancer therapy

• DOI: 10.21037/acs.2017.02.01
• Publication Date: 2017-04-06T08:14:35Z
• Authors: Ori Wald; Brandon Smaglo; Henry Mok; Shawn S. Groth
• Keywords: Esophagectomy; Targeted Therapy; Endoscopic mucosal resection

Resection techniques for esophageal carcinoma continue to evolve, from endoscopic mucosal resection or submucosal dissection early stage disease standard and robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy as part of multimodal therapy locally advanced disease. Though currently limited assessing conduit perfusion sentinel lymph nodes, embedded technology in the robotic surgical platform will likely play an expanded role during future. The use targeted therapies, checkpoint inhibitors, engineered immune cell therapy, cancer vaccines show promise treatment systemic Radiation are becoming increasingly sophisticated they may a more active IV