Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schneider, Paul M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 182
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Pneumology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.
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Among malignant tumors, adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction show the highest increase in incidence over the past three decades in Western industrialized countries. Accordingly, much effort is being devoted to basic and translational research in order to combat this frequently deadly dise...

Table of Contents:

• Epidemiology of adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (EJ)
• Clinical classification systems
• Histopathologic classification
• The pathogenesis of Barretts metaplasia and the progression to esophageal adenocarcinoma
• Differences in the molecular biology of adenocarcinoma of the EJ
• Clinical staging
• Endoscopic mucosal resection for staging and therapy
• Surgical strategies
• Current status of sentinal lymph node biopsy in adenocarcinoma of the EJ
• Current diagnosis and future impact of micrometastases for therapeutic strategies
• Quality indicators in the surgical management of adenocarcinoma of the EJ
• Perioperative and complication management
• Multimodality therapy
• Metabolic response evaluation by PET during neoadjuvant treatment
• Molecular response prediction in multimodality treatment.