Where this oesophageal cancer information comes from

All our information is checked by cancer specialists and surgeons who specialise in treating cancer. The names of our specialist reviewers are at the end of this page. We also try to find patients to review all our sections. If you have had oesophageal cancer, live in the UK and would like to become a patient reviewer, you can write to us by clicking on contact us.

Cancer Research UK
CancerStats Series

US National Cancer Institute
Information on the treatment of oesophageal cancer
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/types/esophageal /

Principles and practice of oncology (8th edition)
De Vita, V.T., Hellman, S. and Rosenberg S.A.
Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2008

Cancer and its management (6th edition)
Tobias J and Hochhauser D
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours (7th edition)
International Union Against Cancer
L.H. Sobin, M.K. Gospodarowicz, Ch. Wittekind
John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th edition)
American Joint Committee on Cancer
Springer, 2010

Guidelines for the management of oesophageal and gastric cancer
British Society of Gastroenterology and British Association of Surgical Oncology, 2002
Link to the NICE website

Management of oesophageal and gastric cancer
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), June 2006
Link to the SIGN website

Improving Outcomes in Upper Gastro-intestinal Cancers
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 2001
Link to the NICE website

Referral Guidelines for suspected cancer
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), June 2005
Link to the NICE website

Thoracoscopically assisted oesophagectomy
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), August 2006
Link to the NICE website

Photodynamic therapy for high grade Barrett's oesophagus
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), August 2004
Link to the NICE website

Epithelial radiofrequency ablation for Barrett's oesophagus
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), May 2010
Link to the NICE website

Ablative therapies for Barrett's oesophagus
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), August 2010
Link to the NICE website

Endoscopic submucosal dissection of oesophageal dysplasia and neoplasia
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), September 2010
Link to the NICE website

National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit
NHS Information Centre
Second Annual Report 2009

Preoperative radiotherapy for esophageal carcinoma. Cochrane Review. Arnott SJ, Duncan W, Gignoux M, Girling DJ, Hansen HS, Launois B, Nygaard K, Parmar MKB, Rousell A, Spiliopoulos G, Stewart LA, Tierney JF, Wang M, Rhugang Z (Oesophageal Cancer Collaborative Group). In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 2005. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Preoperative chemotherapy for resectable thoracic esophageal cancer. Cochrane Review. Malthaner R, Fenlon D. In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2004. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Survival benefits from neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy in oesophageal carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Gobs, V., Burmeister, B., Smithers, B.M., Foo, K.,Zalcberg, J. and Simes, J., for the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group. Lancet Oncology, (2007), 8, 226-34.

Oesophageal cancer. Lagergren J and Lagergren P. British Medical Journal, 2010, Vol. 341. Clinical Review. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c6280

Mr William Allum, MBChB, MD, FRCS
Dr Tom Crosby, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Dr Patricia Fisher, BSc MBChB (Hons) MRCP FRCR
Mr Richard Steyn, MS FRCSEd(C-Th) FIMCRCSEd MRCGP DRCOG

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