%0 Journal Article
%T Perioperative change in lymphocyte count and prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
%A Jun-Zhou Wu
%A Qian Song
%A Sheng Wang
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2019
%R 10.21037/jtd.2019.06.02
%X Esophageal cancer (EC) is the seventh most common cancer and the sixth cause of cancer-related death worldwide. EC is the fifth most common cancer and the fourth most frequent cause of cancer-related death in China (1). Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the main pathological type with 90% of all EC cases in China (2,3). Curative resection is one of the most effective therapies for ESCC. However, the clinical outcome in patients with ESCC has remained far from satisfactory (4). Therefore, it is critical to define novel and reliable prognostic factors that may help to classify patients who at high risk of recurrence. Moreover, this group of patients in ESCC might benefit from postoperative adjuvant therapies including chemotherapy and radiotherapy against recurrence
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