Preoperative therapy in locally advanced esophageal cancer

Figure 1 Forest plot comparing survival in esophageal cancer in patients who received preoperative radiotherapy followed by surgery vs surgery alone (Reproduced with permission from Arnott et al[9]).

Figure 2 Forest plot comparing survival in esophageal cancer in patients who received preoperative chemotherapy followed by surgery vs surgery alone (Reproduced with permission from Kidane et al[27]).

Figure 3 The forest plots of postoperative mortality and complications of chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery vs surgery alone using a fixed effects model (Reproduced from Deng et al[45]).