Esophageal carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies in China. Previous studies reported that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have important roles in the progression and invasion of numerous types of solid tumors. Among the MMPs, MMP-2 has been closely associated with tumor growth and invasion. In the present study, a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) lentiviral expression vector targeting the ...

Human RAD17, a human homolog of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe cell cycle checkpoint gene RAD17, plays a significant role in activating checkpoint signals in response to DNA damage. We evaluated the association of hRAD17 Leu546Arg (rs1045051), a missense single nucleotide polymorphism, with the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in relation to smoking and alcohol consumption history in 1...

Castleman's disease (CD) is an uncommon benign lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology. A rare case of cervical CD diagnosed at lymph node dissection for esophageal carcinoma is reported. An esophageal tumor was identified in a 67-year-old man during a follow-up examination after surgery for oral carcinoma. Esophagoscopy revealed a type 1 tumor in the cervical esophagus. Histology of e...

PURPOSE The purpose is to characterize alterations of the annexin I gene, its mRNA, and protein expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Fifty-six cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma were analyzed using four microsatellite markers flanking the annexin I gene (9q11-q21) to identify loss of heterozygosity. In addition, we performed (a) single-strand conforma...

Background: In 2003, robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) was first reported to overcome the technical limitations of esophagectomy. RAMIE requires repeated modifications set up robotic system, and sufficient experience is required gain proficiency. This study aimed identify learning periods outcomes for esophageal carcinoma.

A case of esophageal carcinoma exclusively composed of adenocarcinoma simulating an esophageal gland duct in a 61-year-old man is presented. The tumor arose as a slightly elevated lesion in the middle intrathoracic esophagus. It was almost completely overlaid with non-neoplastic stratified squamous epithelial cells. Beneath the overlying surface epithelium, an adenocarcinoma that was bilayered ...

Synchronous development of a second primary cancer in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma was reported in 2.73%-11% of the cases. Although the synchronous association between esophageal and renal cancer is very rare, an increasingly number of cases is reported in medical literature. This study's aim is to report a case of synchronous esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and an urothe...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for resectable esophageal carcinoma has been a focus of study, but no agreement has been reached on clinical randomized controlled trials and relevant systematic evaluation. The purpose of this study was to perform a meta-analysis on published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery with surgery alone for resectable esophag...

background: this study evaluated the relation between telomere length in lymph node (ln) and prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc).  materials and methods: lns collected from 50 patients were assessed by pathological examination and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qrt-pcr), which was used for detecting telomere length. the relation between clinical...

Esophageal cancers are among the most prevalent malignancies worldwide, with high rates of incidence and mortality (Ferlay et al., 2010; Spechler et al., 2011). There are two major histological types of esophageal carcinoma: esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and adenocarcinoma with considerably varied epidemiological features. ESCC continues to be the major type of esophageal cancer in ...