The oesophageal adenocarcinoma is an increasing pathology in the last decade, predominantly western population. A characteristic of esophageal cancer (EC) and esophageal-gastric junction (EGJC) high percent metastatic disease at time diagnosis one main causes death these patients. present case about a 78-year-old man, diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus high-grade dysplasia stenosis distal third...

Figure 1. The increase in the incidence of adenocarcinoma in the US over the past several decades.Dashed line: all oesophageal cancers, in all races, men and women; dotted line: squamous cell carcinoma in Caucasian men; solid line: adenocarcinoma in Caucasian men. Data from Spechler and Ries et al. INTRODUCTION Oesophageal cancer is one of the most lethal forms of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer w...

Objective: This paper tests the hypothesis that the value-stream mapping (VSM) method, based on Lean thinking, could help streamline the care process for patients with oesophageal cancer.

Abstract Aim Oesophageal and gastric cancers are the eighth fifth most prevalent with a high degree of morbidity mortality. Oesophagogastric resections associated complications postoperatively. Complications following resection poorer hospital recovery, recurrence cancer, readmission to increased A study was carried out examine if there an association between post-operative bloods development c...

Reported is an unusual case of adjacent thoracic lymph nodes demonstrating metastases from two different primary malignancies. A 51 year-old woman with a previous history of bilateral breast cancer underwent a radical gastro-oesophagectomy for adenocarcinoma of the lower third of the oesophagus. The resection specimen demonstrated breast and oesophageal metastases in adjacent thoracic lymph nod...

Amongst white population of developed countries, the prevalence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma has dramatically increased during the last four decades. During this period, the increased damage to the oesophageal mucosa with gastroesophageal reflux could result from increased acid output (due to absence of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa with excellent sanitation) and/or increased frequ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the modifications of oesophageal function after major lung resection and whether these modifications are correlated with the extent of resection (pneumonectomy vs others). METHODS In the last 5 years, 40 consecutive surgical patients with lung cancer were prospectively enrolled and divided in two groups: Group A (n = 20) patients scheduled for elective pneumonectomy and G...

Although ginsenoside Rg3 has been shown to exert anticancer effects on a variety of malignancies, the and molecular mechanisms oesophageal cancer remain unclear. Therefore, these factors must be explored. Here, we analyzed effect cell proliferation migration, as well its apoptosis. Furthermore, detected downstream pathways that could act on. The results showed significantly inhibited migration ...

The aim of this study was to analyse the protein and mRNA expressions of EphA2 and EphrinA-1 in oesophageal squamous cell carcinomas and to explore their clinicopathological associations and predictive values in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Tissue array and immunohistochemistry were used to assess the protein expressions of EphA2 and EphrinA-1 in tumours from 173 patients with oesophage...

BACKGROUND Little is known about risk factors for different cancers in Malawi. This study aimed to assess risk factors for and epidemiologic patterns of common cancers among patients treated at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe, and to determine the prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in the same population. METHODS We analysed data from the hospital-based KCH c...