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Epidemiology of Esophageal Cancer
Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 2009The epidemiology of esophageal cancer has radically changed in the last fifty-years in the Western world. Changes in the predominant type of squamous cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma, disparities between different ethnicities, and the exponential increase in incidence rates of adenocarcinoma have established esophageal cancer as a major public health ...
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Chemoradiotheraphy of Esophageal Cancer
Acta Oncologica, 2002Esophageal cancer is a disease with a poor prognosis and high biological aggressiveness. The disease used to be considered a mainly local problem, and palliative care with relief of dysphagia was the goal for most of those concerned with the disease.
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Nonresectable Esophageal Cancer
Gastroenterology Nursing, 1992Esophageal cancer is a devastating illness that has often metastasized before diagnosis. Diagnostic options include barium x-ray and endoscopy. Staging is most accurate using endoscopic ultrasonography. Treatment modalities that are widely used include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, dilatation, prosthesis placement, neodymium-yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser
K M, Savas, J, Zeroske
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Management of Esophageal Cancer
Current Problems in Surgery, 2010The number of new cases of esophageal cancer in the United States in 2000 likely will exceed the 12,000 annually recorded in previous years. Although two histologic subtypes exist, the incidence of adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus in the last two decades has been increasing dramatically throughout North America and Europe.1–3 The primary risk ...
Matthew J, Schuchert +2 more
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Nutrition and esophageal cancer
Cancer Causes and Control, 1996Epidemiologic evidence on the relation between nutrition and esophageal cancer is reviewed. Results from ecologic, case-control, cohort, and intervention studies are included. Most of the findings pertain more to squamous cell carcinoma than adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
K K, Cheng, N E, Day
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Epithelial cells activate fibroblasts to promote esophageal cancer development
Cancer Cell, 2023Chen Wu
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