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New strategies in Barrett's esophagus: integrating clonal evolutionary theory with clinical management.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jun 2011
Reid Brian J, Kostadinov Rumen, Maley Carlo C
Abstract excerpt
Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the normal stratified squamous epithelium of the distal esophagus is replaced by intestinal metaplasia. For more than three decades, the prevailing clinical paradigm has been that Barrett's esophagus is a complication of symptomatic reflux disease that predisposes to esophageal adenocarcinoma. However, no clinical strategy for cancer prevention or early detection based...
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