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Esophagus Carcinoma Surveillance Counterpoint: Japan

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Cancer has been the leading cause of death in Japan since 1981. The number of cancer deaths in Japan in 2006 was approximately 329,000, and about 11,300 patients were due to esophageal cancer, thus making it the sixth most common cause of cancer death [1]. In Western countries the incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is increasing and the site is typically the lower esophagus or the esophagogastric junction [2]. In Japan, 93 % of esophageal carcinomas are of the squamous cell variety and 53 % of all esophageal carcinomas are located in the midthoracic esophagus [3].

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  1. Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

    Masaru Morita M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. & Yoshihiko Maehara M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University, Vista Avenue 3635, St. Louis, 63110-0050, Missouri, USA

    Frank E. Johnson

  2. Fac. Medicine, Dept. Surgery II, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

    Yoshihiko Maehara

  3. BC Cancer Agency, West 10th Avenue 600, Vancouver, V5Z 4E6, British Columbia, Canada

    George P. Browman

  4. School of Medicine, Washington University, S. Euclid Ave. 660, St. Louis, 63110, Missouri, USA

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  5. St Helens Teaching Hospital, University of Liverpool, Marshalls Cross Road, St Helens, WA9 3DA, United Kingdom

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  6. Sydney Cancer Centre, Sydney Melanoma Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, 2050, New South Wales, Australia

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  7. Saint Louis University Medical Center, Saint Louis, 63103, Missouri, USA

    David Y. Johnson

  8. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Binney St. 44, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

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Morita, M., Maehara, Y. (2013). Esophagus Carcinoma Surveillance Counterpoint: Japan. In: Johnson, F., et al. Patient Surveillance After Cancer Treatment. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-969-7_18

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