Comment on "Adjuvant treatment after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a real-world study".

Ther Adv Med Oncol · 2025 · PMC12414117 · PMID 40923049

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narrowly missed statistical significancep = 0.058so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The observed survival difference in the overall population narrowly missed statistical significance ( p = 0.058), and a similarly nonsignificant result was reported in the pathological complete response (pCR) subgroup ( p = 0.110).

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