… Age of the patients was significantly related to the improvement of dysphagia score. Mean …
a low survival rate after palliative care in esophageal cancer cases despite dysphagia scores’ …

… esophageal cancer received treatment to palliate dysphagia. … by our Esophageal Cancer
Tumor Board before treatment. Of … palliative treatment of dysphagia in inoperable esophageal …

… routine palliative care needs of esophageal cancer patients and provides guidance on when
to seek specialist-level palliative care … for dysphagia during their disease course. Effective …

… Because of severe complications, non-endoscopic treatment (surgery, radiotherapy,
brachytherapy … esophageal stents in palliative treatment of dysphagia related to esophageal …

… of dysphagia is the primary goal of palliative treatment of esophageal cancer as long as no
treatment … All interventions described in this paper are known to provide relief of dysphagia. …

… Unknown to many, the phrase palliative care was actually first termed by a surgeon, Balfour
… Palliation of dysphagia of esophageal cancer by endoscopic lumen restoration techniques. …

… 2,3,35 Coia et a135 reviewed the results of combined chemotherapy and radiation in relieving
dysphagia caused by esophageal cancer in 102 patients treated at the Fox Chase Cancer …

… Palliative radiotherapy has traditionally been used as a noninvasive means of palliating
dysphagia in patients with incurable esophageal cancer. … relief when palliative treatments are …

… IVB esophageal cancer were treated in our hospital. Of these 219 patients, 143 patients were
treated … radiotherapy alone and 6 received palliative surgery as initial management (Fig. 2). …

… treatment modalities have been used for the palliation of dysphagia in patients with incurable
esophageal cancer, … concurrent radiation of 40 Gy is categorized as palliative therapy. The …