Malignant: Esophageal Cancers
Autor: | Anthony Delliturri, Shintaro Chiba, Igor Brichkov |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Zdroj: | Clinical Gastroenterology ISBN: 9783319966304 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-96631-1_4 |
Popis: | Worldwide, the incidence of new esophageal cancers is 440,000, and new deaths are 442,000 making esophageal cancer ranked ninth and sixth as the most common cancer and most frequent cancer-related cause of death, respectively. Esophageal carcinoma can be squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma, the latter increasing in frequency is North America and Europe. Obesity and reflux disease have been attributed to the cause. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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