A Rare Cause of the Cough: Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus—Case Report by Erdal Yekeler, Timur Koca, Semra Vural

“…In the western populations, the rate of primary small cell carcinoma in all esophageal cancer types is between 0.05% and 2.4%, while it is endemically increasing up to 7.6% in the eastern populations. …”
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Epidemiology and morphology of malignant gastrointestinal tumors in Kabardino-Balkarian Republic for 25 years by A. A. Tkhakakhov

“…In Kabardino-Balkar Republic in contrast to all-Russia and world data decrease in oral and oropharyngeal and especially (more than double) esophageal cancer was noted. Decrease in incidence of colorectal cancer and growth - of the stomach cancer in Kabardino-Balkar Republic correspond to similar trends in other regions, but exceed them in rates. …”
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Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer to Thyroid Diagnosed by Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Technique by Yousef Abdel-Aziz, Tariq Hammad, Mohamad Nawras, Hayder Abdulwahid, Ali Nawras

“…An 81-year-old female patient underwent EUS for the evaluation of a newly discovered distal esophageal cancer. A hypoechoic, round, and well-demarcated mass that measured 26.9 mm × 21.9 mm was noticed in the right lobe thyroid gland. …”
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Ataxin-2: a powerful RNA-binding protein by Lulu Li, Meng Wang, Lai Huang, Xiaoli Zheng, Lina Wang, Hongming Miao

“…With the progress of research, ATXN2 has also been found to play an important role in the development of various cancers, including breast cancer, gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and esophageal cancer. This comprehensive exploration underscores the crucial role of ATXN2 in the pathogenesis of diseases and warrants further investigation by the scientific community. …”
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β-receptor blocker enhances anti-tumor immunity via inhibiting lactate-induced norepinephrine metabolism of macrophages during malignant pleural effusion by Ru Zhang, Weijia Wang, Aitian Li, Huishang Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Feifei Fan, Ying Wang, Huanyu Zhang, Jingxia Chang, Yinyin Zhang, Hongmin Wang, Lijun Miao, Bo Huang, Li Yang, Li Yang, Li Yang, Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang

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Transabdominal Approach for Chylorrhea after Esophagectomy by Using Fluorescence Navigation with Indocyanine Green by Takeshi Matsutani, Atsushi Hirakata, Tsutomu Nomura, Nobutoshi Hagiwara, Akihisa Matsuda, Hiroshi Yoshida, Eiji Uchida

“…A 70-year-old man who underwent two sessions of thoracoscopy-assisted ligation of the thoracic duct to treat refractory chylorrhea after radical esophagectomy for advanced esophageal cancer received conservative therapy. However, there was no improvement in chylorrhea. …”
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Unfavorable Tumor Responses to Immunotherapy in the Liver: Lessons Learned from Clinical and Preclinical Studies by Li-Chun Lu, Gen-Sheng Feng, Chih-Hung Hsu

“…Results: In patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma or esophageal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, or melanoma with liver metastases, the efficacy of ICI-based therapy was generally lower in the liver than in other organs. …”
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Unusual presentation of esophageal tuberculosis: a case study by Ming Xue, Yue-Can Zeng

“…Whole-body 18 F-FDG PET/CT revealed a lesion in the mid-esophagus and swollen mediastinal lymph nodes with high FDG uptake, showing a maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of 17.10 for the lymph nodes and 8.08 for the esophageal lesion. Esophageal cancer was initially suspected based on PET/CT findings. …”
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Immediate Free Jejunum Transfer for Salvage Surgery of Gastric Tube Necrosis by Hiroki Umezawa, Takeshi Matsutani, Rei Ogawa, Hiko Hyakusoku

“…The present report describes the case of a 62-year-old male who developed gastric tube necrosis 3 days after undergoing surgery for thoracic-cervical esophageal cancer and immediate reconstruction with the retrosternal gastric pullup technique. …”
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MDRN: Multi-distillation residual network for efficient MR image super-resolution by Liwei Deng, Jingyi Chen, Xin Yang, Sijuan Huang

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Actin-Binding Proteins as Potential Biomarkers for Chronic Inflammation-Induced Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy by Yu-Gui Zhang, Jiang-Tao Niu, Hong-Wei Wu, Xin-Lei Si, Shu-Juan Zhang, Dong-Hui Li, Tian-Tian Bian, Yue-Feng Li, Xing-Ke Yan

“…This is the case for breast cancer, gastric cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma, and colorectal cancer. …”
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Clinicopathological Characteristics, Treatment, and Prognosis of 21 Patients with Primary Gastric Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Yang Chen, Hong Zhu, Feng Xu, Yidan Cao, Xingting Gu, Yuming Wan, Hongfeng Gou

“…A standard chemotherapy regimen for this disease has not yet been established; the choice of its chemotherapy regimens tends to follow the principle of the treatment of gastric adenocarcinoma or esophageal cancer. PGSCC generally had a poor prognosis, and early detection, early diagnosis, and early surgical treatment are beneficial to patients.…”
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DKK1 and Its Receptors in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Promising Molecular Target by Markos Despotidis, Orestis Lyros, Tatiana S. Driva, Panagiotis Sarantis, Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, Adam Mylonakis, Andreas Mamilos, Stratigoula Sakellariou, Dimitrios Schizas

“…However, it has been shown that in several GI cancers, including esophageal cancer, DKK1 may act as an oncogene itself through Wnt-independent signaling pathways. …”
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Human microbiomes in cancer development and therapy by Chenglai Xia, Jiyan Su, Can Liu, Zhikai Mai, Shuanghong Yin, Chuansheng Yang, Liwu Fu

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Budget Impact of RefluxStop™ as a Treatment for Patients with Refractory Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease in the United Kingdom by Sam Harper, Lukasz Grodzicki, Stuart Mealing, Elizabeth Gemmill, Paul Goldsmith, Ahmed Ahmed

“…**Discussion:** While the time horizon was too short to capture some of the adverse events of PPIs and complications of GORD, such as the development of Barrett’s esophagus or esophageal cancer, the use of RefluxStop™ was associated with a substantial reduction in surgical complications, including surgical failures, reoperations, and endoscopic esophageal dilations. …”
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Exosomes loaded with the anti-cancer molecule mir-1-3p inhibit intrapulmonary colonization and growth of human esophageal squamous carcinoma cells by Yanmei Yu, Bingjie Jin, Ruzhen Jia, Lei Shi, Yong Chen, Jian Ge, Changqin Xu

“…Abstract Background The overall prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer (EC) is extremely poor. There is an urgent need to develop innovative therapeutic strategies. …”
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Smoking Exposure and Survival of Patients with Esophagus Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jun-jie Kuang, Zhi-min Jiang, Yan-xian Chen, Wei-peng Ye, Qiong Yang, Hui-zhong Wang, De-rong Xie

“…Smoking is a well-known major risk factor in development of esophageal cancer, but few studies have reported the association between smoking status and prognosis of these patients. …”
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Clinicopathological Features and Increased Expression of Toll-Like Receptor 4 of Gastric Cardia Cancer in a High-Risk Chinese Population by Guangcan Chen, Muming Xu, Jingyao Chen, Liangli Hong, Wenting Lin, Shukun Zhao, Guohong Zhang, Guo Dan, Shuhui Liu

“…We compared the clinicopathological characteristics of GCC patients from a high-risk area in China to esophageal cancer (EC) patients. Immunohistochemistry for TLR4 was performed in 201 histological samples of normal gastric cardia mucosa (n=11), gastric cardia inflammation (n=87), and GCC (n=103). …”
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Synthesis of Amino Acid Schiff Base Nickel (II) Complexes as Potential Anticancer Drugs In Vitro by Yang Li, Jianfang Dong, Peiran Zhao, Ping Hu, Dawei Yang, Lei Gao, Lianzhi Li

“…All these complexes displayed moderate cytotoxicity toward esophageal cancer cell line Eca-109 with the IC50 values of 23.95 ± 2.54 μM for 1, 18.14 ± 2.39 μM for 2, and 21.89 ± 3.19 μM for 3. …”
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Intra-tumoral sphingobacterium multivorum promotes triple-negative breast cancer progression by suppressing tumor immunosurveillance by Zhikai Mai, Liwu Fu, Jiyan Su, Kenneth K.W. To, Chuansheng Yang, Chenglai Xia

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