Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Cancer of the Esophagus
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
1969-12-31
Target enrollment:
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Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so
they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. It
is not yet known whether external-beam radiation therapy plus chemotherapy is more effective
with or without internal radiation therapy.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare chemotherapy and external-beam radiation
therapy with or without internal radiation therapy in treating patients with stage I, stage
II, or stage III esophageal cancer.