Radiotherapy of 180 cases of operable esophageal carcinoma

Table 5 Comparison of surgery with radiotherapy for esophageal cancer in different esophageal segments

Treatment	Author	Year	5-year resection survival rates
			Upper segment		Middle segment		Lower segment
			No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Surgery	Wu et al[15]	1962	0/4	0	5/33	15.2	13/39	33.3
	Gu et al[6]	1964	0/6	0	11/55	20.0	10/29	34.5
	Su et al[13]	1965	2/12	16.6	7/33	21.2	6/24	25.0
	HebaiMed.Univ. et al[12]	1973	10/84	11.9
	Wu et al[16]	1979	3/28	11.7	87/327	26.6	72/220	32.7
	Li et al[9]	1980		26.0		30.0		34.0
	Giuli et al[5]	1980		14.0		15.0		24.0
	Akiyama et al[1]	1980			7/28	25.0	7/24	29.2
	Lin et al[11]	1983	9/43	20.9	89/388	17.8	80/288	27.8
	Elias et al[4]	1992		6.4		17.2		28.9
	Vigneswaran et al[14]	1994	9/49	18.4
	Cancer 1Hosp. CAMS		93/311	29.9	398/1303	30.5	169/577	39.3
Radiotherapy	Present series2		12/27	44.4	28/125	22.4	4/28	14.3

¹Material of Dept. Thoracic Surgical Oncology to be published.

²Exploratory 5-year survival rates.