Salvage esophagectomy: 'We made too many wrong mistakes'

摘要

Is salvage esophagectomy the solution to failure of definitive chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer? Is the addition of a more extensive lymphadenectomy to salvage esophagectomy a therapeutic step forward or a further compounding of a therapeutic oversight? In considering the report by Wang and colleagues, we are reminded of Yogi Berra's explanation for his team's failure: "We made too many wrong mistakes."