Objective: To determine the impact of esophagectomy with 3-field lymphadenectomy on
staging, disease-free survival, and 5-year survival in patients with carcinoma of the …

Hypothesis En bloc esophagectomy (EBE) provides improved survival over transhiatal
esophagectomy (THE) in patients with similarly sized transmural tumors (T3) and lymph …

Background Adenocarcinoma of the gastro-oesophageal junction is considered a distinct
clinical entity, although the current pathological tumour node metastasis (pTNM) …

Options for the treatment of esophageal cancer used to be very limited, with surgical
resection and radiotherapy methods aimed at both cure or palliation, and, in those …

BACKGROUND: Photodynamic therapy appears to be effective in ablating high-grade
dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus. Our aim was to identify the most effective and cost-effective …

METHODS The search was conducted on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed
database. The time period covered was from January 1982 to October 2002. The search …

Even after potentially curative esophagectomy, the majority of patients with adenocarcinoma
of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction die due to cancer recurrence. To predict …

The CCCA is one of nine Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCCs) in the Netherlands. Its
area is the northwestern part of the Netherlands and involves 2,800,000 inhabitants, 17 …

Many patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma have unrecognized metastatic disease at
the time of first presentation. These patients will have recurrent disease after …

Over the last decades, enormous progress has been made in the understanding of basic
molecular genetics. This is particularly true for oesophageal adenocarcinoma with its well …