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Comparison of characteristics of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma associated with head and neck cancer and those with gastric cancer
Author(s) -
Kuwano Hiroyuki,
Morita Masaru,
Tsutsui ShinIchi,
Kido Yuichiro,
Mori Masaki,
Sugimachi Keizo
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930460208
Subject(s) - medicine , head and neck cancer , cancer , esophageal cancer , oncology , basal cell , carcinoma , head and neck , head and neck squamous cell carcinoma , incidence (geometry) , surgery , physics , optics
In ongoing reviews of 339 patients with surgically treated primary squamous cell carcinoma, there were 19 (5.6%) with concurrent gastric cancer and 11 (3.2%) with head and neck cancer. The incidences of intra‐esophageal multiple occurrence of esophageal cancer are 27.3% and 26.3% in those with associated head and neck cancer and gastric cancer, respectively, and higher than 7.1% in those without such a concurrent cancer. There was no difference in the clinicopathological characteristics of those with concurrent head and neck and gastric cancers, except for the higher incidence of metachronous occurrence in the former. These findings suggest that, in cases of esophageal cancer associated with concurrent head and neck cancer and gastric cancer, intraesophageal multiplicity of the esophageal carcinoma is frequent and that preoperative serial evaluations is most important to design treatment and estimate the prognosis.