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Can Genomic Sequencing Identify High-Risk Barrett's Esophagus Earlier Than Pathologists?
Matthew D Stachler1, Adam J Bass2
1Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Cancer Cell
|November 10, 2020
Abstract:
Barrett's esophagus (BE) is a precursor to esophageal adenocarinoma, and screening for cancer risk focuses upon histologic assessment of dysplasia within endoscopic biopsies. A recent study in Nature Medicine contributes to growing evidence that genomic assessment of non-dysplastic BE samples can identify patients at greatest risk of progressing to cancer.
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