Esophageal cancer: Cases and causes (Part I)
Esophageal cancer: Cases and causes (Part I)
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DOI:
10.1055/s-2007-966530
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发表时间:
2007-06-01
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影响因子:
9.3
通讯作者:
Hainaut, P.
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作者:
Lambert, R.;Hainaut, P.
The worldwide burden of esophageal cancer (for both sexes) was estimated in 2002 [1] as 462000 new cases and 386000 deaths; the high ratio (0.83) of mortality to incidence confirms a poor prognosis. Asiatic countries share most of the burden with 362000 new cases annually and 293000 deaths. Using an age-standardized rate (ASR), incidence is estimated worldwide at 11.5 per 100 000 in men and 4.7 per 100000 in women. Much higher rates occur in certain regions of Asia, such as Cixian in China (●" Table 1), and of Africa [2].Most cases are squamous cell carcinomas (SCC); adenocarcinoma (ADC) in Barrett esophagus is less frequent, although its incidence is on the rise in several high-resource countries. Reliable data on histology are found in registries in which the proportion of unspecified cases is small (●" Tables 2 and●" 3). Tumors at the esophagogastric junction are often misclassified between the distal esophagus or the gastric cardia.