Epidemiology of esophageal cancer.
The epidemiology of esophageal cancer has radically changed in the last fifty-years in the Western world. Changes in the predominant type of squamous cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma, disparities between different ethnicities, and the exponential increase in incidence rates of adenocarcinoma have established esophageal cancer as a major public health problem requiring urgent attention.
Eslick
Guy D
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School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. geslick@hsph.harvard.edu