Esophageal Cancer and Barrett's Esophagus (eBook)

PROFESSOR PRATEEK SHARMA, Professor Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, and Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA. PROFESSOR RICHARD SAMPLINER, Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, and Chief of Gastroenterology at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System. DAVID ILSON, MD, PHD, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

1 Epidemiology of Esophageal Carcinoma
Mohammad H. Shakhatreh and Hashem El-Serag

2 Barrett's Esophagus: Definition and Diagnosis
Stuart Jon Spechler

3 Epidemiology and Prevalence of Barrett's Esophagus
Helen G. Coleman, Shivaram K. Bhat, and Liam J. Murray

4 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Risk Factors
Mariam Naveed, Kerry Dunbar

5 Esophageal Motility Abnormalities in Barrett's Esophagus
Kumar Krishnan, John E. Pandolfino, and Peter J. Kahrilas

6 Molecular Biology of Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Ayesha Noorani and Rebecca C. Fitzgerald

7 Histology of Barrett's Esophagus: Metaplasia and Dysplasia
Deepa T. Patil and John R. Goldblum

8 Helicobacter Pylori and Esophageal Neoplasia
Arne Kandulski, Marino Venerito, and Peter Malfertheiner

9 Screening and Surveillance
Krish Ragunath

10 New Surface Imaging Technologies for Dysplasia and Cancer Detection
David F. Boerwinkel, Wouter L. Curvers, and Jacques J.G.H.M. Bergman

11 New Cellular Imaging Technologies for Dysplasia and Cancer Detection
Ralf Kiesslich

12 Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound in Esophageal Cancer
A. Samad Soudagar andNeil Gupta

13 Staging of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma by CT, PET and Other Modalities
Florian Lordick, Katja Ott, Matthias Ebert, Lars Grenacher, Bernd-Joachim Krause, and Christian Wittekind

14 Medical Management of Barrett's Esophagus
Sachin Wani

15 Thermal Therapies and Photodynamic Therapy for Early Esophageal Neoplasia
Jacques Deviere

16 RFA for Early Esophageal Neoplasia
Daniel K. Chan, Cadman L. Leggett, and Kenneth K. Wang

17 The Role of Endoscopic Cryotherapy for Treatment and Palliation
Kristle Lee Lynch, Eun Ji Shin, and Marcia Irene Canto

18 Endoscopic Mucosal Resection
Oliver Pech

19 Endoscopic Sub-mucosal dissection
Hiro Yamamoto, Tsuneo Oyama, and Takuji Gotoda

20 Surgical Therapy of Early Esophageal Cancer
Toshitaka Hoppo and Blair A. Jobe

21 Chemoprevention: Can We Prevent Esophageal Cancer?
Janusz Jankowski and Mary Denholm

22 Selection of Patients for Eradication and Cancer Prevention
Aaron J. Small and Gary W. Falk

23 Combined Modality Therapy in Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Geoffrey Y. Ku and David H. Ilson

24 Surgery in Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Nabil Rizk

25 Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Heath D. Skinner and Bruce D. Minsky

26 Systemic Therapy and Targeted Agents in Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Mark A. Lewis and Harry H. Yoon

27 Role of Endoscopy and Nutritional Support in Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Manol Jovani, Andrea Anderloni, and Alessandro Repici

"Prateek Sharma and Richard Sampliner have assembled a superb,
comprehensive and up to date textbook on Barrett's esophagus and
esophageal adenocarcinoma. There are very few problems with this
book. The section on the management of esophageal adenocarcinoma is
brief and clearly directed to gastroenterologists rather than
surgeons or oncologists (as is most of the textbook). ...This is an
excellent textbook for anyone with an interest in esophageal
disease or gastrointestinal cancer. It should be an essential
textbook for any medical library."

-J. Patrick Waring, Atlanta GA

Practical Gastroenterology, January 2002

"Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma is a
comprehensive collection of chapters written by leading authorities
in the field. It has many fine qualities. The editors clearly
demonstrate that the study of Barrett's esophagus lends itself to a
multidisciplinary approach. Each chapter is introduced by a
background section that acquaints the reader with the concepts
underlying the material that follows. As a result, the book does a
remarkable job of presenting knowledge about Barrett's esophagus to
a general audience.

The figures and tables are excellent, the color plates are of
good quality, and the text is lucid, succinct and comprehensive.
This superb work effectively summarizes all the current topics
pertinent to Barrett's esophagus. It is comprehensive yet not
cumbersome and introduces the reader to a wide range of
disciplines. Gastroenterologists will reap great rewards from
reading this book, but it also reaches out to a larger audience and
is a model of how the study of a single disease lends itself to
many different specialities."

-David. A. Katzka, MD. The New England Journal of Medicine.
Volume 345(20) November 2001.