[The prognosis in patients with esophageal cancer: statistical study in relation to age, histotype, tumor stage, and immunological reactivity].
This paper analyses the prognostic factors in cancer of the oesophagus in relation to site, histological type, age, and the patient's immunitary reactivity evaluated histologically in the lymphonodes and the tumoral tissue itself, and the invasion or otherwise of the loco-regional lymphonodes. The survival curves are calculated by the actuarial method. In particular, it was seen that patients with absence of peritumoral lymphocytic infiltrate and depletion of the loco-regional lymphonodes present a survival curve stopping at the second year after the operation, whereas reactive patients survive beyond that date in 29% of cases. It may therefore be asserted that the presence of lymphocytic infiltrate in the tumour and of lymphonodal reactivity are a pointer to an attitude of defence of the organism, and the importance of the study of these factors as prognostic criterion in patients subjected to resection of the oesophageal tumour clearly emerges.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D004947:Esophagus / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis
La prognosi nei pazienti affetti da cancro esofageo: studio statistico in relazione ad eta, istotipo, stadio tumorale, reattivita immunitaria.