Global burden and epidemiology of Barrett oesophagus and oesophageal cancer

AP Thrift - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2021 - nature.com
Oesophageal cancer is a global health problem; in 2018 there were more than 572,000
people newly diagnosed with oesophageal cancer worldwide. There are two main …

Epidemiology of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

CC Abnet, M Arnold, WQ Wei - Gastroenterology, 2018 - Elsevier
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for about 90% of the 456,000
incident esophageal cancers each year. Regions of high incidence include Eastern to …

Oesophageal cancer

EC Smyth, J Lagergren, RC Fitzgerald… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Oesophageal cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide
and is therefore a major global health challenge. The two major subtypes of oesophageal …

Esophageal carcinoma

AK Rustgi, HB El-Serag - New England Journal of Medicine, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
The 5-year survival rate in esophageal cancer, although poor, has improved over the past
decade. This review discusses the epidemiologic aspects, pathogenesis, prevention, and …

Gastric cancer: descriptive epidemiology, risk factors, screening, and prevention

P Karimi, F Islami, S Anandasabapathy… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2014 - AACR
Less than a century ago, gastric cancer was the most common cancer in the United States
and perhaps throughout the world. Despite its worldwide decline in incidence over the past …

Genetic landscape of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

YB Gao, ZL Chen, JG Li, XD Hu, XJ Shi, ZM Sun… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the deadliest cancers. We
performed exome sequencing on 113 tumor-normal pairs, yielding a mean of 82 non-silent …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of esophageal cancer

Y Zhang - World journal of gastroenterology: WJG, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Esophageal cancer (EsC) is one of the least studied and deadliest cancers worldwide
because of its extremely aggressive nature and poor survival rate. It ranks sixth among all …

Global trends in esophageal cancer

GK Malhotra, U Yanala, A Ravipati… - Journal of surgical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Esophageal Cancer (EC) is a lethal malignancy with
poor prognosis and significant variations in the incidence, mortality, and histopathology …

Epidemiology of esophageal cancer in Japan and China

Y Lin, Y Totsuka, Y He, S Kikuchi, Y Qiao… - Journal of …, 2013 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In preparation for a collaborative multidisciplinary study of the pathogenesis of esophageal
cancer, the authors reviewed the published literature to identify similarities and differences …

Racial disparity in gastrointestinal cancer risk

H Ashktorab, SS Kupfer, H Brim, JM Carethers - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer from the gastrointestinal tract and its associated excretory organs will occur in more
than 300,000 Americans in 2017, with colorectal cancer responsible for> 40% of that …