Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy kills cancer cells or stops them from growing. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD): Surgeons may use ESD to treat very early-stage esophageal cancer. Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR): Surgeons use this procedure to remove tumors...
cancer, but it cannot provide information about disease that has spread beyond the esophagus. A double contrast study is a barium swallow with air blown into the esophagus to improve the way the barium coats the esophageal lining. Endoscopy is a diagnostic procedure in which a thin lighted tube...
Esophageal cancer is aggressive and despite advances in both medical and surgical therapies, the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has increased more than that of any other cancer in the United States. BE remains the major risk factor for esophageal adenocarcinoma. The overall survival outcome of...
Stage IV. Esophageal cancer at this stage is hard to get rid of, so surgery to try to cure it is rarely an option. Treatment will aim to control the cancer for as long as possible and minimize symptoms as much as possible. Chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy may ...
Esophageal cancer is one of the most lethal forms of cancer and theprognosis has not improved substantially during recent decades despitenew treatments and diagnostic methods. In view of these discouragingresults it is important to ident... J Lagergren - 《Southern Medical Journal》 被引量: 9发表...
AIM: To perform a retrospective evaluation of morbidity, early postoperative mortality rates, and the safety of the procedure in patients who underwent hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy in our clinic. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The records of 14 patients with esophageal cancer operated...
Chemoradiotherapy of Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer Carcinoma of the esophagus traditionally has been treated by surgery or radiation therapy (RT), but 5-year overall survival rates have been only 5% to 10%... JS Cooper,MD Guo,A Herskovic,... - 《Journal of the American Medical Association...
Esophageal cancerdescribes the disease where cells that line the esophagus change or mutate and become malignant. These cells grow out of control and form a mass or tumor. There are two main types of esophageal cancer: Esophagealsquamous cell carcinomaaffects the squamous cells and usually develops...
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Endoscopic therapy using an endoscopic variceal ligation for minute cancer of the esophagogastric junction complicated with esophageal varices: a case report Introduction Standard endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection is a procedure for patients with minute cancers, complicated with ...