Prognostic significance of pathological tumor response and residual nodal metastasis in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery

Background The present study investigated prognostic factors in patients with resectable locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) among various clinicopathological features related to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and surgery, and the indications for additional treatment after surgery were considered.