Fig. 2.

Treatment design of the ESO-Shanghai 1 trial. Patients in both Arms will receive concurrent chemoradiotherapy and consolidation chemotherapy. Radiotherapy will begin on Day 1, concurrent with the beginning of cycle 1 of chemotherapy. (Abbreviations: R, radiotherapy; PTX, paclitaxel; DDP (P), cisplatin; 5-FU (F), 5-fluorouracil; PF, cisplatin plus 5-fluorouracil; TF, paclitaxel plus 5-fluorouracil)