35 patients with lokaly advanced adenocarzinomas of the esophagus were treated in a prospective phase-II-trial with a combination of paclitaxel, leucovorin, cisplatin and 5-FU regarding efficiency and compatibility.Those patients, who responded to chemotherapie should underwent an operation in curative intention. The remission-rate was 48%.29 patients could be resected, 64,5% of them R0. In 31% of the resected specimens tumorregression was over 90%. After chemotherapie 51,7% of the patients showed a lower UICC/AJCC-stage compared to clinical assessment. Those patients who responded to the preoperativ chemotherapie had a significant better prognosis than non-responders. The combination of paclitaxel/cisplatin/leukocorin/5-FU has been proven to be as effectiv as other paclitaxel-containing combinations compared to current literature and is suitable for further neoadjuvant phase-III-trials.
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35 patients with lokaly advanced adenocarzinomas of the esophagus were treated in a prospective phase-II-trial with a combination of paclitaxel, leucovorin, cisplatin and 5-FU regarding efficiency and compatibility.Those patients, who responded to chemotherapie should underwent an operation in curative intention. The remission-rate was 48%.29 patients could be resected, 64,5% of them R0. In 31% of the resected specimens tumorregression was over 90%. After chemotherapie 51,7% of the patients show...
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