Inaugural Discussions in Cardiothoracic Treatment and Care: Surgery for Esophageal Cancer, November 16, 2012, Boston, MA

• Conduit preparation and its lie are the crucial elements in esophagectomy
• Pyloric drainage of some sort is preferred to the use of Botox.
• The use and timing of conduit preconditioning remains unanswered.
• Significant postoperative reflux is seen in a minority of cases.
• Surgery use or not as part of a multimodality treatment package should be decided prior to the inception of therapy.