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Table 1 Cancer is the second most common cause of death in Americans (see www.cdc.gov). Colorectal cancer kills more Incidence and Mortality of the Five Most Common Gastrointestinal Malignancies Americans than any other malignancy except for lung cancer. The incidences and mortalities of the major gastrointestinal a a Site Incidence Mortality (GI) malignancies are shown in Table 1. Taken as a group, the five most common GI malignancies account for more cancers Colorectum 53.9 21.6 and more cancer deaths than for any other site. Pancreas 11.1 10.6 Stomach 9.1 4.9 Flexible endoscopy has given physicians unprecedented Liver/intrahepatic bile ducts 6.2 4.4 access to the GI tract. The ability to endoscopically visu- Esophagus 4.5 4.3 alize, biopsy, and apply therapy has had implications for the management of all the major GI malignancies. Accepted Data from SEER database 1992-2002 (www.seer.cancer.gov). applications of endoscopy range from detection of mal- a Per 100,000.

Contents:

Part I. Esophagus

Barrett's Esophagus: Screening, Diagnosis, and Management
Glenn M. Eisen

Endoscopic Screening for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus
Brian C. Jacobson

Image Enhancement Endoscopy
Stephan M. Wildi and Michael B. Wallace

Staging of Esophageal Cancer
Jason Vollweiler and Gregory Zuccaro, Jr.

Endoscopic Therapy for Early Esophageal Cancer and Premalignant Lesions in Barrett's Esophagus
Ganapathy A. Prasad and Kenneth K. Wang

Endoscopic Therapy for Advanced Esophageal Cancer
Sanjay Jagannath and Marcia I. Canto

Radiological Imaging of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
Marc S. Levine

Esophageal Cancer Therapy: Surgery, Radiation, and Chemotherapy
John M. Holland and Christopher A. Canning

Part II. Stomach and Small Bowel

Premalignant Lesions of the Stomach
Omid A. Shaye and Andrew Ippoliti

Gastric Polyps
George A. Makar and Gregory G. Ginsberg

Endoscopic Ultrasound for Staging Gastric Cancer
Gregory Olds and Amitabh Chak

Endoscopic Treatment for Gastric Cancer
Takuji Gotoda and Roy M. Soetikno

Diagnosis and Management of Gastrointestinal Lymphoma
John G. Kuldau, Peter R. Holman, and Thomas J. Savides

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
Raquel E. Davila

Carcinoid Tumors
Willscott E. Naugler and Gordon C. Hunt

Medical and Surgical Therapy for Gastric Cancer
Diane Hershock

Part III. Colon

Colorectal Cancer Screening
Jason A. Dominitz and William M. Grady

Polyposis and Familial Cancer Syndromes
Fernando S. Velayos, Madhulika G. Varma, and Jonathan P. Terdiman

Endoscopic Colon Surveillance: Post-Polypectomy, Post-Colorectal Cancer Resection, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Douglas B. Nelson and Mandeep S. Sawhney

Endoscopic Ultrasound for Staging Rectal and Anal Cancer
Deepak V. Gopal

Endoscopic Therapy of Colorectal Carcinoma
Vaman Jakribettuu and Yang K. Chen

Radiological Imaging of the Lower Gastrointestinal Tract
Stephen E. Rubesin

Current Status of Colorectal Cancer Therapy
John Strother, Kevin G. Billingsley, Arthur Y. Hung, and Charles D. Blanke

Part IV. Pancreas, Bile Ducts, and Mediastinum

Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
William R. Brugge

Diagnosis and Evaluation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Kenneth H. Yu and Nuzhat A. Ahmad

Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: Endoscopic Palliation
Georgios I. Papachristou, Kevin McGrath, and Adam Slivka

Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Erik-Jan Wamsteker and James M. Scheiman

Endoscopic Diagnosis and Management of Cholangiocarcinoma
Vanessa M. Shami and Irving Waxman

Ampullary Neoplasia
Ian D. Norton

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Neoplasms of the Pancreatobiliary System
Evan S. Siegelman and Wendy C. Hsu

Medical and Surgical Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer
Weijing Sun, Jon Morris, and Jeffrey Drebin

Endoscopic Ultrasound for Thoracic Disease
Timothy Woodward, Massimo Raimondo, and Michael B. Wallace

Index