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Gastrointestinal Cancer

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Cancer of the esophagus was noted more than 2000 years ago in the Honan province of northern China. In the Linhsien county of Honan province, where the “hard-of-swallowing disease” had been quite prevalent for many years, there existed a “Throat God Temple” until 1927, when it was de-stroyed during the war (Yang 1980). Cancer of theesophagus was also described by Jurgani, a Persian medical writer, as early as 1100 A. D. It is of interest to note that the highest incidence rates of esopha-geal cancer in the world are currently found in these two regions.

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Mendenhall, W.M., Million, R.R. (1990). Esophageal Cancer. In: Dobelbower, R.R. (eds) Gastrointestinal Cancer. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83657-2_5

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