What is the success rate of surgery for esophageal cancer?

  Surgery for esophageal cancer is a common treatment method, and many patients and family members ask how high the success rate of surgical treatment for esophageal cancer is after surgical resection. The factors affecting the success rate of esophageal cancer surgery are mainly as follows.  Early stage esophageal cancer surgical resection is easy to achieve the ideal result, and postoperative consolidation therapy, radiotherapy or tumor biotherapy must be carried out to help postoperative recovery and improve the cure rate; however, it is not an easy task for patients with middle and late stage esophageal cancer. However, it is not easy for patients with middle and advanced stage esophageal cancer. The influencing factors are: the presence or absence of lymph node metastasis; the infiltration of cancer up to the periphery of esophageal wall is lower than that without external infiltration; the resection rate decreases if the disease has lasted for more than one year; the positivity or otherwise of stump margin cancer; the upper and lower margins are ≥5cm from the tumor, etc.  2.Patients with middle and late stage esophageal cancer have little chance of surgical treatment. Although some patients with advanced esophageal cancer can have their tumors removed, it is not easy to cut them completely. For cases where advanced tumor cannot be removed, precise non-invasive gyroscopic knife can be used for treatment in order to reduce patients’ swallowing difficulties.  3. Gyroscopic knife has less damage to normal tissues, thus obviously reducing the incidence of complications such as radiation esophagitis and esophageal fistula, which are acceptable to patients with slightly poorer constitution, and the efficacy is more accurate and rapid, which can relieve the symptoms as soon as possible. Comprehensive treatment facilitates the recovery of patients and maximizes the control of the disease.  Reducing postoperative complications can effectively improve the success rate of surgery Patients’ own immunity decreases to different degrees after surgical treatment of esophageal cancer, which may lead to a series of postoperative complications, such as anastomotic fistula, electrolyte disorders, etc. Regular consolidation treatment and review must be done well after surgery so that it will be beneficial to patients’ condition.