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This study aimed to explore whether bulky regional lymphadenopathy at diagnosis affected survival outcomes in patients with EAC treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and en bloc resection. A single-center retrospective review of a prospectively maintained upper GI cancer surgical database was performed between January 2012 and December 2019. Patients with locally advanced EAC (cT2-3, N+, M0) treated with neoadjuvant docetaxel-based chemotherapy and transthoracic en bloc esophagogastrectomy were identified. Computed tomography scans from before the initiation of treatment were reviewed, and patients were stratified according to whether bulky loco-regional lymph nodes were present. This was defined as lymphadenopathy &amp;gt;2\u00a0cm in any axis. Overall survival was compared, and a Cox multivariate regression model was calculated. Two hundred twenty-five of the eight hundred seventy patients identified met the inclusion criteria. Forty-eight (21%) had bulky lymphadenopathy, leaving 177 allocated to the control group. More patients with bulky lymphadenopathy had ypN3 disease (18\/48, 38% vs. 39\/177, 20%, P\u2009=\u20090.025). Among patients with bulky lymphadenopathy, overall survival was generally worse (32.6 vs. 59.1\u00a0months, P\u2009=\u20090.012). However, among the 9\/48 (19%) patients with bulky lymphadenopathy who achieved ypN\u2212 status survival outcomes were similar to those with non-bulky lymphadenopathy who also achieved lymph node sterilization. Poor differentiation (HR 1.8, 95% CI 1.0\u20132.9, P\u2009=\u20090.034), ypN+ (HR 1.9, 95% CI 1.1\u20133.6, P\u2009=\u20090.032), and bulky lymphadenopathy were independently associated with an increased risk of death (HR 1.7, 1.0\u20132.9, P\u2009=\u20090.048). Bulky regional lymphadenopathy is associated with a poor prognosis. 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