Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Methods and Protocols

Methods in Molecular Biology 1756 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Alfred K. Lam Editor Methods and Protocols ...

Me t h o d s i n Mo l e c u l a r Bi o l o g y Series Editor John M. Walker School of Life and Medical Sciences University of He ...

Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Methods and Protocols Edited by Alfred K. Lam Cancer Molecular Pathology of School of Medicine, Griffi ...

ISSN 1064-3745 ISSN 1940-6029 (electronic) Methods in Molecular Biology ISBN 978-1-4939-7733-8 ISBN 978-1-4939-7734-5 (eBook) ht ...

v Esophageal adenocarcinoma is highly prevalent in the Western world, and the incidence is rapidly rising. In addition, esophage ...

vii Contents Preface ........................................................................................................... ...

viii 17 Liquid Biopsy for Investigation of Cancer DNA in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Cell-Free Plasma DNA and Exosome-Associated ...

ix NathaN acott · Immunohistochemistry and Anatomical Pathology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth, WA, Australia BeNjamiN m. ...

x dumiNda suBasiNGhe · University Surgical Unit, The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka johNNy c. taNG · Departm ...

1 Alfred K. Lam (ed.), Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1756, https://doi.or ...

2 rise in incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma is very rapid in the Western populations. In Asian populations, there is also a ...

3 to dysplasia and invasive adenocarcinoma. Increased body weight and obesity may increase intra-abdominal pressure resulting in ...

4 treatment clinical staging of the disease to decide the manage- ment of the patient. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) uses an endos ...

5 4 Prognosis Esophageal is the sixth most common cause of cancer death world- wide. The prognosis for patients with esophageal ...

6 ciplinary management team approach in the caring of the patients and multidisciplinary research on the cancer. It is important ...

7 Alfred K. Lam (ed.), Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1756, https://doi.or ...

8 on Cancer (AJCC) staging of esophageal and esophagogastric junction epithelial cancers, only tumor involving the esophagogas- ...

9 esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma. Abdominal nodal regions that are at risk include gastrohepatic ligament and celiac ax ...

10 Reassessment should be performed after completion of neoad- juvant CRT to evaluate response and surgery is 4–6 weeks after co ...

11 gional relapse [ 7 ]. MacDonald et al. reported a randomized trial comparing postoperative adjuvant CRT with surgery alone fo ...