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Genetic Insights in Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma.
Gastroenterology - 1 Oct 2015
Reid Brian J, Paulson Thomas G, Li Xiaohong
Abstract excerpt
Beginning in the 1980s, an alarming rise in the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) led to screening of patients with reflux to detect Barrett's esophagus (BE) and surveillance of BE to detect early EA. This strategy, based on linear progression disease models, resulted in selective detection of BE that does not progress to EA over a lifetime (overdiagnosis) and missed BE that rapidly progresses to EA...
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