Background: Radiotherapy (RT) is the major part of the treatment strategy set by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) for\npatients diagnosed with esophageal cancer (EC). The effect of an MDT collaboration on patients with EC who\nunderwent RT is unclear.\nMethods: We retrospectively collected all patients diagnosed with EC in the radiation oncology department at our\ninstitution from January 2015 to May 2017. The patients were divided into groups based on if they had their cases\npresented or not presented at the MDT meeting (with MDT and non-MDT, respectively). Propensity score matching\n(PSM) was applied at a ratio of 1:1 and the nearest neighbor matching method to compare the two groups.\nResults: A total of 212 consecutive patients were analyzed, including 157 with MDT and 55 non-MDT. In the\nunmatched population, the patients with MDT were more likely to received chemotherapy than the non-MDT\npatients.........................
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