BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT AS A METHOD TO PREVENT ESOPHAGUS ADENOCARCINOMA
Treating patients with esophageal cancer remains one of the challenges for clinical oncology. Squamous cell carcinoma has long been considered as the most common morphological structure of esophageal cancer. However over the last decades there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of esophagus adenocarcinoma and of esophagogastric junction in particular. It determines the necessity to define etio-pathogenetic factors of suchlike epidemiological changes and to study prognostic and predictive factors in combined and complex therapy of such patients. Barrett's esophagus is a precancerous background of esophagus adenocarcinoma and is considered by some scientists as an obligate precancer. This article is devoted to the modern methods of diagnostics, screening and treatment of Barrett's esophagus to prevent the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma.