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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Oct 8;159(4):1626–1635.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.09.123

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

In this National Cancer Database analyses, restricted cubic splines identified that survival worsens for patients with stage I esophageal adenocarcinoma if surgery is offered later than 100 days from diagnosis. The risk of margin-positive resection also increases beyond 100 days while the risk of pathologic nodal upstaging remains similar.