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Although esophageal carcinoma is a relatively uncommon cancer in Western countries, there has been a rising incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and increasing mortality due to that disease in the United States and several European countries.¹ In particular, adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction, the distal esophagus, and the gastric cardia have all been increasing in incidence.

The recent epidemiologic shift in esophageal carcinoma in Western countries from squamous-cell carcinoma associated with smoking and alcohol abuse to adenocarcinoma associated with Barrett's metaplasia might be attributed to the increasing incidence of obesity and obesity-induced chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease.² Systematic screening for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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