%0 Journal Article %T Editorial comments for neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced squamous cell esophageal cancer %A Pischik, Vadim G. %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2018 %B 2018 %9 %! Editorial comments for neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced squamous cell esophageal cancer %K %X In August 2018 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology , Yang and coworker published a well-designed analysis of 451 patients with potentially resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), clinically staged as T1-4N1M0/T4N0M0, who were randomly assigned to the neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) plus surgery, or to surgery alone groups (1). The study was presented as the phase III multicenter, randomized, open-label clinical trial. It was a great honor to be invited to provide editorial comments on this article. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/24988 %V 10 %N 11 %P 5979-5981 %@ 2077-6624