Esophageal Cancer Treatment. New Medications Make it More Powerful

In recent years, esophageal cancer has become even more powerful in Japan and treatment results have improved.
In addition to the conventional methods, three new types of drugs have been added to the existing methods.
Let's take a look at the new methods.

Conventional Treatment Methods

Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor that develops inside the esophagus, and early detection and appropriate treatment are very important.
In the past, esophageal cancer was generally treated with drugs to reduce the size of the esophagus before surgical removal.

Japan: Two types of drugs (traditional method)
U.S.A. and Europe: two medications plus radiation therapy

In recent years, new drugs have been developed that are expected to greatly improve the effectiveness of esophageal cancer treatment.

New treatment methods

A group at the National Cancer Center,
The National Cancer Center group investigated the use of three drugs, adding a drug called docetaxel to the two conventional drugs.

The results of the study are below.

The results of the study

The method using three drugs: 72.1% of patients seemed to have a survival result of 3 years.

Conventional method using 2 types of drugs: 62.6% of patients survived for 3 years.

Combination of two drugs and radiotherapy: 68.3% of patients survived for 3 years.

These results are summarized in the points below.

Points

• The method using three drugs was found to have a higher survival rate than the conventional method.
• The method using three drugs was more effective than the method combining two drugs and radiation therapy.

The impact of this study

・The standard method of esophageal cancer treatment in Japan has been changed to a method using three drugs.

・This may lead to a review of esophageal cancer treatment methods around the world.

Many methods were from the U.S. to Japan, but for this method, there is a possibility that it is from Japan to the world.
Let us hope for the future.

Summary

The treatment method using these three drugs is a method that has the potential to improve the survival rate of esophageal cancer patients.
It is hoped that further research will be conducted to bring this treatment method to even more patients in the future.
I hope that this treatment method will be established and will spread to more and more countries and save the lives of many people.

Let's look forward to the future.
If there are any updates to the information, we will summarize them here as well.