ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA. LITERATURE REVIEW. STATE OF THE PROBLEM TO THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY: PREVENTION AND PROGNOSIS

A.A. Moroshek1, M.V. Burmistrov2,3

1Volga branch of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Blokhin of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Kazan

2Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan

3Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan

Moroshek Anton A. ― Ph.D. (medicine), Senior Researcher of the Volga branch of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Blokhin of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

29 Sibirskiy Trakt, Kazan, Russian Federation, 420029, tel. +7-960-055-94-49, e-mail: anton.moroshek@mail.ru

AbstracVol. The article presents a detailed review of the literature from 1950-2010, containing information on approaches to the prevention of the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma, which had formed by the beginning of the 21st century, as well as on the prognosis of this disease.

Key words: adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, tumors of the esophageal-gastric junction, prevention of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, diagnosis and treatment of Barrett esophagus, prognosis of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.