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Revision of lymph node classification in the Japanese Classification of Esophageal Cancer and its impact on definitive chemoradiotherapy for stage IV esophageal cancer: a single-institution retrospective study.

Tetsugaku Shinozaki, Yuki Wada, Satoshi Kumagai, Tasuku Kume, Noriko Takagi, Kenta Watanabe, Tamotsu Matsuhashi, Katsunori Iijima, Yushi Nagaki, Akiyuki Wakita, Yusuke Sato, Naoko Mori

Journal of radiation researchSep 25, 2026PMID 42786638doi:10.1093/jrr/rrag083 Journal ArticlepubmedProvenance
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The 2022 revision of the Japanese Classification of Esophageal Cancer reclassified certain lymph node metastases previously considered locoregional as distant lymph node metastasis. Consequently, some patients previously diagnosed with stage IVA or III disease and treated with definitive…

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