title: Advanced esophageal cancer.
abstract: Although the prognosis for patients with early cancer is good, throughout the world the majority of patients present with advanced disease, and in them, survival is poor. Accurate staging is essential to inform prognosis; to select candidates who may be cured by surgery alone; to select patients requiring neoadjuvant therapy, especially when new protocols are being studied; and to detect patients with advanced disease who would be best served by palliative therapy.
authors.affiliation: Gastrointestinal Unit, Western General Hospital, NHS Trust, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. ian.penman@luht.scot.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Ian D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Penman
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Henry
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D019160:Endosonography / Q000379:methods*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging