Demographic Trends in Carcinoma Esophagus from India along with a Brief Comparative Review of the Global Trends

Background Esophageal cancers (ECs) are more prevalent in the East Asian countries of the world, wherein squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are the predominant histological subtype. In contrast, the patterns in the West are a bit heterogeneous, with esophageal adenocarcinoma (AC) being the more frequen...

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Main Authors: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Siva Shankar Behuria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2020-07-01
Series:South Asian Journal of Cancer
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0041-1723103