The researchers collected data from 1,000 patients with mAC and found:
• 96.3 percent of patients achieve a complete responses after endoscopic resection
• 3.7 percent of patients needed surgery after endoscopic therapy failed
• 14.5 percent of patients experienced metachronous lesions or recurrence of cancer during the follow-up period, but endoscopic re-treatment was successful in 115 cases
• Of those patients 115 patients, 93.8 percent achieved a long-term complete remission rate of 93.8 percent
• 111 patients died of concomitant disease
• Two patients died of Barrett’s esophagus-associated cancer
• 10-year survival rate of mACs patients undergoing endoscopic resection was 75 percent
• Major complications occurred in 1.5 percent of patients
The researchers concluded that endoscopic resection is safe and effective for mAC patients and should become the standard of care.
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