Extracapsular lymph node involvement after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in esophageal carcinoma: how to interpret?

We thank Dr. Chao, and Dr. Luchini and Dr. Veronese for their interest in and their editorial comments (1,2) on our manuscript entitled “Impact of extracapsular lymph node involvement after neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy followed by surgery in carcinoma of the esophagus: a multicenter study”, recently published in Annals of Surgery (3).