eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | adenocarcinoma of esophagus |
| Comorbidity | C0017168|gastro-oesophageal reflux disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 24243140 | Siewert and leers have previously reported 37% 2 and 50% 3 respectively from large single centre western series compared to the low prevalence of type iii tumours seen in eastern series (5.6%) 29. the proportional increase in type i tumours in our series is likely to represent the widely reported increase in incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma 30,31 associated with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease 32 and barrett's metaplasia 33 in the united kingdom 34. the expansion of endoscopic barrett's surveillance strategies is also likely to have increased disease detection and treatment. |
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