%0 Journal Article %T Esophageal cancer in elderly patients: a population-based study %A Alessandro Brunelli %A Calvin S. H. Ng %A Chia-Chuan Liu %A Dakai Xiao %A Fei Cui %A Gaetano Rocco %A Haiquan Chen %A Hui Pan %A Jianxing He %A Jiaxi He %A Jun Liu %A Ren¨Ś Horsleben Petersen %A Thomas DĄŻAmico %A Wei Wang %A Wei Yang %A Wenhua Liang %A Wenjun Wang %A Xiao Dong %A Xiuyi Zhi %A Yuan Zeng %A written on behalf of the AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2018 %R 10.21037/jtd.2018.01.89 %X Esophageal cancer (EC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, with approximately 455,800 new EC cases and 400,200 deaths occurring in 2012 (1). In the United States, it was estimated that 16,980 people were diagnosed with EC and that 15,590 deaths occurred in 2015 (2). Although there have been many recent advances in diagnosis and therapy, the 5-year survival rate for EC ranges from 15% to 25% (3) %U http://jtd.amegroups.com/article/view/18790/html