The goal of this thesis was the outcome analysis of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEG) and a postresection R1 status. We tried to identify risk factors for and prevalence of R1 resection, their recurrence and prognosis, and efficacy of postoperative therapy. The association of R1-resections with poor tumor characteristics allows for identification of patients at risk for R1-resection. The main challenge of this tumor entity is the very early sytemic spread as tumor recurrence in R1-resections was mainly systemic, not local. The potential benefit of additive local postoperative therapies after R1-resections must be balanced against overall prognosis and therapy-specific morbidity and mortality.
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The goal of this thesis was the outcome analysis of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEG) and a postresection R1 status. We tried to identify risk factors for and prevalence of R1 resection, their recurrence and prognosis, and efficacy of postoperative therapy. The association of R1-resections with poor tumor characteristics allows for identification of patients at risk for R1-resection. The main challenge of this tumor entity is the very early sytemic spread as tumo...
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