Validation and refinement of the 8th edition of the AJCC staging system for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with definitive IMRT or chemo-IMRT: a Chinese multi-institutional retrospective study.

Radiat Oncol · 2025 · PMC12613452 · PMID 41225591

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Following the consolidation of T4a and T4b into a unified T4a category, well-separated OS curves for all T stages (T1, T2, T3, and revised T4a) were observed, with significant differences between most stage comparisons ( P < 0.001), except for the borderline significance between T1 and T2 ( P = 0.057) (Fig. 2 B).

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