The effect of surgery plus chemoradiotherapy on survival of elderly patients with stage Ⅱ–Ⅲ esophageal cancer: a SEER‐based demographic analysis

The optimal treatment for elderly patients with esophageal cancer (EC) remains controversial. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether elderly patients with stage II-III EC could benefit from trimodal therapy.The selected elderly patients with stage II-III EC between 2004 and 2015 were included in a retrospective cohort study from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. The patients were divided into two groups...