Surgery after chemoradiotherapy—which is the standard of care in advanced esophageal cancer—increased overall and disease-free survival compared with chemoradiotherapy alone, according to the results of a study presented at the 2013 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium in San Francisco.
http://cancer.unm.edu/2013/02/21/surgery-improves-survival-in-esophageal-cancer/
Surgery Improves Survival in Esophageal Cancer