Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer and Liver Cirrhosis
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 7234
Special Issue Editor
Interests: esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal diseases, upper gastrointestinal oncology, surgical oncology, minimally invasive esophagogastric surgery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Patients with liver cirrhosis have an increased risk of extrahepatic cancers, but life expectancy of cirrhotic patients has increased thanks to antiviral drugs and liver transplantation. Today, cancer and not liver disease, could be the survival limiting factor.
Liver cirrhosis is also a major limit to cancer therapy, because of impaired hepatic function and greatly increased surgical risk. Management of these patients is demanding, needs involvement of a multidisciplinary team, and requires careful calculation of the risk-benefit ratio.
This Special Issue of Cancers addresses the relations between upper gastrointestinal cancer and liver cirrhosis. We invite experts to submit research articles and reviews on all aspects of the complex management of these patients.
Dr. Michele Valmasoni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- esophageal cancer
- gastric cancer
- pancreatic cancer
- biliary cancer
- risk factors
- liver failure
- bleeding
- chemotherapy toxicity
- ascites
- surgery complications