The aprepitant regimen appears to reduce the requirement of rescue medication when compared with the control regimen for prevention of CINV in patients receiving both an anthracycline and cyclophosphamide, and is associated with a better quality of life during adjuvant AC chemotherapy.

Definitive CRT for squamous esophageal carcinoma resulted in comparable long-term survival to surgery. Further large-scale studies would be required to further investigate the role of CRT in node-positive patients. Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT01032967.

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