... or advertisements. 2025 Pregnancy Esophageal cancer Gastric cancer Pancreatic cancer Diagnostics Risk factors Therapy The incidence of gastrointestinal cancers during pregnancy has been increasing in recent years, mainly due to the shift in maternal age at delivery [ 1 ]. Despite concerns...

... or radiation therapy. It can be divided according to its anatomical level into esophago-tracheal fistula, esophago-bronchial fistula, and in the rarest case, esophago-pulmonary fistula (EPF). We present a case of EPF aggravating an anastomotic leak (AL) after the Ivor-Lewis operation for esophageal cancer...

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... of tissue oxygenation in real time. Methods: In this case series, HSI was used in 4 patients who were admitted for either esophageal cancer or cardiac carcinoma (AEG type I or II). Thoraco-abdominal surgical esophageal resection was performed after staging and neoadjuvant therapy. Intraoperative oxygenation...

...: A systematic review of the relevant literature on minimally invasive esophageal surgery for cancer is presented. A PubMed search was carried out for the period of 1992-2018 with the following search terms: ‘esophageal cancer', ‘minimally invasive surgery', ‘resection', ‘transhiatal', ‘transthoracic', ‘MIE...

... has been published during the last decade, demonstrating a significant improvement in esophageal surgery regarding postoperative outcome, e.g. postoperative mortality rate, as well as oncological long-term results after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer [ 1,2 ]. Improvements in surgical technique...

...Thomas Rabenstein Summary Background : This is a review of endoscopic therapy in the setting of palliative management of patients suffering from esophageal cancer (EC). Unfortunately, many cases of EC present in a stage of disease in which curative therapy is not possible. The maintenance...

...Ralf Metzger; Frank Schütze; Stefan Mönig Summary Background: This review depicts surgical treatment strategies in the management of esophageal cancer under the focus of evidence-based medicine. The main emphasis lies on technical details, i.e. surgical approach, lymphadenectomy, and current...

...Emmanouil Fokas; Claus Rödel Summary Background: Long-term survival in patients with esophageal cancer remains dismal despite the recent improvements in surgery, the advances in radiotherapy (RT) technology, and the refinement of systemic treatments, including the advent of targeted therapies...

... to establish a new standard of care for the treatment of localized esophageal cancer. Finally, preliminary experience in potentially curative treatment approaches for oligometastatic tumor stages may offer new treatment options for patients with stage IV gastric cancer. However, some of these innovative...

.... The management of esophageal cancer is challenging. There are no specific symptoms of early esophageal cancers. Due to this fact, most of the esophageal cancers are found incidentally, and only 12.5% of esophageal tumors are endoscopically resectable. Gastroscopy is the gold standard for the diagnosis...