[4] The new AJCC staging system for esophageal cancer seeks to optimize and incorporate epidemiologic and treatment data in order to provide better outcomes. This staging system will most likely ...

An enhanced model that integrates non-AJCC clinical features provides clinicians with a more accurate tool for identifying high-risk patients with MCC.

Bogoevski et al. have found that in patients with carcinoma of the esophagus who have undergone curative resection, the otherwise poor prognostic value of lymph-node staging is improved when a ...

Locoregional evaluation by EUS has been shown to be useful in the diagnosis and preoperative staging (for resectability) of esophageal melanoma. [14] As this case demonstrated, EUS clearly defined ...