Esophageal cancer.

By Peter D. Siersema. Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 2008

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Outcomes After Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: Review of Over 1000 Patients (2012, methodology): “5,7 Briefly, we defined modifications of the McKeown approach as MIE-neck, consisting of either (1) laparoscopic esophagectomy with gastric-pull through and cervical anastomosis (n = 19) or (2) thoracoscopic esophageal mobilization and intrathoracic lymphadenectomy followed by laparoscopic gastric m”
Cancers with increasing incidence trends in the United States: 1999 through 2008 (2012, background): “Incidence rates for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus have been increasing for decades in the United States, in sharp contrast to declining trends for squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.(23) From 1999 to 2008, incidence rates for esophageal adenocarcinoma increased significantly among white men ”
Obesity as a Major Risk Factor for Cancer (2013, background): “In fact, whether oesophageal reflux is associated with adenocarcinoma [10], or whether it is favoured by obesity [11], the change in oesophageal cancermorphology from squamous to adenocarcinoma has followed the worldwide rise in obesity.”