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Introduction to the focused issue on esophageal cancer of the Journal of Thoracic Disease.

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Incidence of esophageal cancer is increasing all over the world with numbers around half a million of new patients every year. Concomitantly, diagnostic and treatment modalities are becoming more sophisticated… Click to show full abstract

Incidence of esophageal cancer is increasing all over the world with numbers around half a million of new patients every year. Concomitantly, diagnostic and treatment modalities are becoming more sophisticated and so creating the possibility for a better selecting patients for neoadjuvant therapy and surgery and so leading to a better survival. Yet, If nowadays a patient is considered resectable, his/her prognosis has increased importantly over the last 15 years.

Keywords: esophageal cancer; journal thoracic; thoracic disease

Journal Title: Journal of thoracic disease
Year Published: 2017

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