Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction: The Pattern of Metastatic Lymph Node Dissemination as a Rationale for Elective Lymphatic Target Volume Definition

Accurate pretherapeutic staging predicts the risk of subclinical nodal disease and should be used to select the appropriate radiotherapeutic PTV. Careful selection of the PTV can be used to maximize the therapeutic window in multimodal therapy for AEG.