A brief overview of esophageal diseases

Saturday, March 29, 2008 · Posted in

Hypopharynx esophageal cancer refers to the combination of the esophageal gastric epithelial origin between esophageal cancer. As early as 2000 years ago, Our country has had records of esophageal cancer, said "gagging." China is a country of high incidence of esophageal cancer, esophageal cancer mortality is the highest national. Its incidence in the world, in some areas almost reached epidemic proportion, such as China, Japan, Iran's Caspian Sea coast, South Africa's Transkei region, northern France's Brittany and Normandy regions and the former Soviet Union some Muslims ethnic-based Union Republic.
The prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer is poor, not after diagnosis, the average survival time of only four months, because today there are different forms of treatment, so its slightly better prognosis than in the past. Esophageal cancer patients seek treatment because of the time than in the past as the surgeon and the increase in treatment, have resulted in surgical resectability rates and the rate of increase, the hospital mortality rate decreased, therefore, the overall survival rate after surgery has been improved. Show esophageal cancer resection is the best treatment Hypopharyngeal difficulties palliative therapy, but also showed a longer survival rate of patients. The simple excision with standard methods, and expand radical resection of the method or methods for the adjuvant treatment of the long-term outcome after treatment was significantly affected.

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