Oesophageal Cancer

Key points

• Until recent times oesophageal cancer was most commonly due to a squamous cell carcinoma but the incidence of adenocarcinoma is rising rapidly.
• Barrett's oesophagus
• Plummer-Vinson syndrome
• squamous cell carcinoma is also linked to diets rich in nitrosamines
• rare: coeliac disease, scleroderma Features