Our institutional preference is to employ a total dose to 70 Gy with concurrent chemotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the cervical esophagus, because a local failure in would require salvage surgery with pharyngo-laryngo-esophagectomy. The role of dose escalation in squamous cell carcinomas o...

We recently wrote a review on this topic so I had a chance to go through the literature (or lack thereof) on dose escalation for the cervical esophagus.  Given the relative rarity of this entity in the US compared to Asia, it is hard to find good data guiding on us on what we should do.  T...