Esophagus cancers

Esophagus cancers 

Updated: 02/12/2021

© Jun Wang, MD, PhD

General features
  • Squamous cell carcinoma more common worldwide
  • Squamous cell carcinoma: Higher risk in patients with a long history of smoking and alcohol consumption
  • Incidence of adenocarcinoma has increased in developed countries
  • More common in men than in women
  • Most commonly during the sixth and seventh decades of life
Risk factors
Clinical presentations
  • Usually asymptomatic at early phase
  • Insidious onset, dysphagia to solids, followed by dysphagia to all food
  • Extreme weight loss
  • Metastasis generally occurs early
  • Masses, with or without ulceration
Pathological features
Management
  • Surgery
  • Radiation therapy
  • Chemotherapy


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