Gastric Cardiac Cancer

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Esophagogastric Junction

   • Qin Huang

   Pages 1-18

3. Cardiac Mucosa

   • Qin Huang

   Pages 19-37

4. Epidemiology and Risk Factors

   • Qin Huang, Edward Lew

   Pages 39-49

5. Natural History

   • Qin Huang, Lily Huang

   Pages 51-54

6. Clinical Molecular Pathology

   • Xiangshan Fan, Qin Huang

   Pages 55-72

7. Pathology of Early Gastric Cardiac Cancer

   • Qin Huang

   Pages 73-118

8. Pathology of Advanced Gastric Cardiac Carcinoma Cancer

   • Qin Huang

   Pages 119-146

9. Gastric Lymphoma

   • Hongbo Yu, Xiangshan Fan

   Pages 147-159

10. Diagnosis

    • Chenggong Yu, Guifang Xu, Qin Huang, Tingshan Lin, Edward Lew

    Pages 161-181

11. Prognosis and Staging

    • Qin Huang, Jason S. Gold

    Pages 183-200

12. Endoscopic Resection of Early Gastric Cardiac Cancer

    • Guifang Xu, Rui Li, Dongtao Shi, Qin Huang, Hiroshi Mashimo

    Pages 201-225

13. Pathologic Evaluation of Endoscopic Resection Specimens

    • Qi Sun, Qin Huang

    Pages 227-241

14. Surgical Therapy

    • Jun Qian, Yu Gong, Qin Huang, A. Travis Manasco, Liming Tang, Jason S. Gold

    Pages 243-262

15. Chemical Therapy

    • Kequn Xu, Yang Yang, Qin Huang, Hua Jiang, Valia Boosalis

    Pages 263-281

16. Radiotherapy and Chemoradiotherapy

    • Xingchu Ni, Kun (Kim) Huang

    Pages 283-297

17. Palliative Care

    • Qian Geng, Xiaolin Pu, Kun Yan, Qin Huang, Ellen Hui Zhan

    Pages 299-315

18. Back Matter

    Pages 317-328

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This book is designed to present readers with comprehensive, high-quality research results on almost all aspects of this carcinoma in clinical management, from correct determination of the esophagogastric junction, issues on cardiac mucosa, epidemiology, and natural history, to clinical, endoscopic, and histopathologic features and diagnostic pitfalls of this carcinoma at both early and advanced stages. Once diagnosed and correctly staged, clinical management of this carcinoma at the early stage is addressed primarily with endoscopic therapy employing the latest endoscopic technology such as endoscopic submucosal dissection, in which detailed technical topics of the endoscopic therapy are written by experts in the field with sections from pre-resection staging and patient preparation to post-resection complications and management. Subsequently, clinical management of gastric cardiac carcinoma at advanced stages is discussed at length with a personalized, multidiscipline approach with strategies from surgical resections with various methods, to pre-, peri- and post-resection chemoradiation therapies as well as the most advanced immunotherapy. A state-of-art approach with the results of meta-analyses and large-scale randomized double-blinded clinical trials are employed throughout these chapters. For patients at the terminal ill stage, the appropriate palliative care plan is presented by experienced clinicians armed with the latest clinical practice guidelines to better manage and help those patients in the last period of their lives.

• Esophagogastric Junction
• Cardiac Mucosa
• Gastric Lymphoma
• Endoscopic Resection
• Radiotherapy
• abdominal surgery
• thoracic surgery

• Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, USA

  Qin Huang

Qin Huang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Senior Attending Pathologist
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1400 VFW Parkway
West Roxbury, MA 02132

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