Adenocarcinoma: UK tops global league table for gullet cancer in men
Rates of SCC have remained fairly stable or have even fallen over the past few years, but those of adenocarcinoma have risen, particularly in high income countries. In 2012, esophageal cancer was the eighth most common cancer worldwide. The researchers used data from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents volume 10 to calculate age, sex, and country specific proportions of the two types of esophageal cancer. These figures were then applied to IARC global data on the number of new esophageal cancer cases in 2012 (GLOBOCAN 2012), and age-standardised rates calculated. …