PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | esophageal cancer |
| Phenotype | C0028754|obesity |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 23621168 | In esophageal cancer patients treated with crt, obesity is not predictive of poorer disease outcomes or operative morbidities; instead, data suggest it may be associated with decreased risk of acute chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-related treatment toxicities. |
| PubMedID- 25364384 | The role of obesity in oesophageal cancer development. |
| PubMedID- 20923920 | Other mechanisms are also relevant, such as obesity increasing the risk of oesophageal cancer by causing gastric acid reflux (freeman, 2004) and increasing the risk of gallstones, which in turn increase the risk of gallbladder cancer (larsson and wolk, 2007). |
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