Etiology and prevention of esophageal cancer

CS Yang, X Chen, S Tu - Gastrointestinal tumors, 2016 - karger.com
Background: Esophageal cancer (EC) occurs commonly, especially in Asia, and is the sixth
leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Recently, great progress has been made in …

Prevention strategies for esophageal cancer: Perspectives of the East vs. West

CS Chung, YC Lee, MS Wu - Best Practice & Research Clinical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer worldwide. Esophageal
adenocarcinoma (EAC) and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) are the two …

Esophageal cancer: epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevention

SB Umar, DE Fleischer - Nature clinical practice Gastroenterology & …, 2008 - nature.com
Esophageal cancer is highly aggressive and is a common cancer both worldwide and in the
US. In the past two decades, the incidence and mortality of esophageal cancer in the US …

Population-based case-control study on risk factors for esophageal cancer in five high-risk areas in China

X Sun, W Chen, Z Chen, D Wen, D Zhao… - Asian Pac J Cancer …, 2010 - journal.waocp.org
Objective: To study major etiological factors for esophageal cancer in upper gastrointestinal
cancer high riskareas in China. Methods: Five areas with high incidences of esophageal …

Overview of risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in China

E Conway, H Wu, L Tian - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Esophageal cancer holds the rank of 6th highest mortality rate worldwide
and carries a low survival rate of 10–30%. The pathology type of esophageal squamous cell …

Research on esophageal cancer: With personal perspectives from studies in China and Kenya

CS Yang, XL Chen - International journal of cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The most common form of esophageal cancer (EC), esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
(ESCC), is prevalent in many unindustrialized societies, among people with lower …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology, etiology, and prevention of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in China

H Liang, JH Fan, YL Qiao - Cancer biology & medicine, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Esophageal cancer is one of the most fatal diseases worldwide mainly because of its rapid
progression and poor prognosis. Although the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiological studies of esophageal cancer in the era of genome-wide association studies

AH Wang, Y Liu, B Wang, YX He… - World Journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Esophageal cancer (EC) caused about 395000 deaths in 2010. China has the most cases of
EC and EC is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in China. Esophageal squamous cell …

[HTML][HTML] Esophageal cancer: Epidemiology, risk factors and screening

J Li, J Xu, Y Zheng, Y Gao, S He, H Li… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
More than 600,000 people are diagnosed with esophageal cancer (EC) every year globally,
and the five-year survival rate of EC is less than 20%. Two common histological subtypes of …

Current status and future perspectives on the etiology of esophageal adenocarcinoma

AP Thrift, N Pandeya, DC Whiteman - Frontiers in oncology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Esophageal adenocarcinoma is the most common type of esophageal cancer in most
Western countries and is an important contributor to overall cancer mortality. Most cases of …