Endoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment of Upper Gastrointestinal Tumors

Introduction

This year’s Digestive Disease Week (DDW) saw the presentation of more than 70 studies focusing on endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of precancerous conditions and tumors in the upper gastrointestinal tract. For reasons of space, only a handful of these are discussed in detail in this review [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]; the remaining are summarized in tabular form or simply mentioned in the text. The selection process was facilitated by the fact that the majority of studies were single-arm and retrospective - prospective or comparative studies, quite apart from randomized trials, were notable exceptions. Endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of Barrett’s esophagus were covered in a separate DDW report [10].

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