Volume : IX, Issue : I, January - 2019

Clinicopathological profile and management of gastroesophageal cancer

Dr. Wasi Abbas Rizvi

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The gastroesophageal carcinoma has shown a geographical shift in few decades. The histological and advanced methods like EUS have become important methods in staging and diagnosis. Aims and Objectives: To study clinicopathological profile of the patients of gastric and esophageal carcinoma and study the management of these patients in the department of surgery in Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: Total of 104 subjects were analyzed for gastroesophageal carcinoma, at “The Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences” as student of Masters in surgery. The prospective study of esophageal, cardia and gastric carcinoma had been conducted, in the department of surgery from Feuary 2006 to may 2007. Retrospective study of esophageal carcinoma done in patients managed by department of surgery who have undergone palliative or surgical procedures from January 2001 to January 2006. Results: Histologically adenocarcinoma found more common at gastric cardia and stomach, indicating the rising trends of adenocarcinoma in Uttarakhand as well as India. But in this squamous cell carcinoma still predominates in the middle and lower end of esophagus. With GIST also reported in traces. The surgical options chosen for the esophageal carcinoma patients are transhiatal Esophagectomy, Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy with palliative feeding jejunostomy. Adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy included for better survival rates.

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CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL PROFILE AND MANAGEMENT OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL CANCER, Dr. Wasi Abbas Rizvi INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-1 | January-2019

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