Chemoprevention for esophageal carcinoma

Abstract

Prevention is the most desirable strategy for nearly all disease processes, but this is especially true for a malignancy with a tendency for metastasis and a correspondingly poor prognosis. Chemoprevention through appropriate drug treatment is a potentially powerful means of radically reducing the incidence of esophageal cancer, and the search for clinically effective agents has now led to large multicenter randomized controlled trials.