Diagnostics and Screening
Targets, Therapies and the Role of Serial Biopsies for Prognostication and Assessing Changes to Tumour Biology in Oesophageal and Oesophagogastric Junction Cancers
Michael LaPelusa, Muhammad Hashim Hayat, Michael K Gibson
touchREVIEWS in Oncology & Haematology. 2022;18(2):107-12 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17925/OHR.2022.18.2.107
Cancers of the oesophagus and oesophagogastric junction (OGJ), termed upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancers, are lethal and constitute a significant public health problem. In 2020, 604,000 cases and 544,000 UGI cancer-related deaths were estimated worldwide.1 UGI cancers are the seventh most frequently diagnosed cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death.1 In the USA, there were […]