Thursday, April 25, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Auditorium Kagame
Introduction: Andrew Chang (USA) – Giovanni de Manzoni (Italy)
Chairs: Kiran H. Lagisetty (USA) – You-Sheng Mao (China) – Philippe Morel (Switzerland)
Moderators: Russel E. White (Kenya) – Rubens A. A. Sallum (Brazil)
- Active surveillance rather than resection is appropriate for patients with esophageal SCC who demonstrate complete clinical response after completing neoadjuvant therapy? – Kiran H. Lagisetty (USA)
- Indications for open esophagectomy? – Arnulf Hölscher (Germany)
- Are there still surgical indications for proximal esophageal cancer? – Rishindra M. Reddy (USA)
- Technique, indications and results for transcervical esophagectomy – Bastiaan Klarenbeek (Netherlands)
- The usefulness of a bilateral trans-cervical pneumomediastinal approach for mediastinoscopic radical esophagectomy – Yutaka Tokairin (Japan)
- What is the best way to treat anastomotic leakage: cervical anastomosis? – Jon O. Wee (USA)