Radiation dose escalation can improve local disease control and survival among esophageal cancer patients with large primary tumor volume receiving definitive chemoradiotherapy

• Forn-Chia Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Forn-Chia Lin, Wei-Lun Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Wei-Lun Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Forn-Chia Lin, Wei-Lun Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Nai-Jung Chiang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Meng-Ying Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Ta-Jung Chung,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Tzu-Hui Pao,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Wu-Wei Lai,

  Roles Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yau‐Lin Tseng,

  Roles Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yi‐Ting Yen,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Bor-Shyang Sheu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sheubs@mail.nuku.edu.tw

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1500-6929

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