A Case of Recurrent Esophageal Cancer Treated with Concurrent Chemoradiation Therapy in Pregnancy

Table 1

Cases of esophageal cancer during pregnancy reported in the literature.

Case	Age	Primary or recurrence	Timing of diagnosis (weeks of gestation)	symptoms	Treatment	Delivery (weeks of gestation)	Fetal outcome	Maternal outcome
Sharma et al. 2009	36	Primary	29	dysphagia, hematemesis	Surgery after delivery	31 CS	2,200 g uneventful	Death
Al-Githmi et al. 2009	29	Primary	29	dysphagia, weight loss	Surgery after delivery	32 CS	unknown	Death
Jain et al. 2014	27	Recurrence	26	dysphagia, weight loss	Chemotherapy during pregnancy	34 CS	2,300 g uneventful	Survival
Sahin et al. 2015	26	Primary	27	dysphagia, weight loss	Surgery during pregnancy	32 VD	uneventful	Survival
Akdemir et al. 2016	39	Primary	28	dysphagia, weight loss	Refusal of treatment	34 CS	2,650 g uneventful	Unknown
The present case	41	Recurrence	16	none	CRT during pregnancy	38 CS	2,480 g uneventful	Survival

CRT, concurrent chemoradiation therapy; CS, cesarean section; VD, vaginal delivery.