Survival in Patients With Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Undergoing Trimodality Therapy Is Independent of Regional Lymph Node Location

The location of cN+ regional node disease in patients with distal esophageal or GEJ adenocarcinoma was not predictive of survival after trimodality therapy. Age, sex, pathologic tumor depth, and the number of involved nodes were independent predictors of survival. Patients with cN+ cancers should not be deprived of potentially curative surgical resection based solely on the location of regional nodal disease.