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  • Chemoradiotherapy is a treatment for esophageal cancer, but its safety in patients with liver cirrhosis (a liver condition) isn't fully known.
  • A study looked at 11 patients with both superficial esophageal cancer and liver cirrhosis who received this treatment and found that most did really well.
  • While the treatment showed high survival rates, there were some side effects like bleeding and radiation damage, so doctors need to be careful and watch for these problems.
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Objective: To evaluate outcomes after different treatment options including endoscopic stent placement, surgical bypass, and percutaneous gastrostomy for malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO).

Methods: Thirty-nine patients with GOO secondary to unresectable primary or metastatic cancer were treated with endoscopic stent placement (group 1, n=13), surgical bypass (group 2, n=21), or percutaneous gastrostomy (group 3, n=5). QLQ-STO22 form was used to assess quality of life (QOL) at baseline, 1 month, and 3 months following intervention.

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