Advances in Endoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment for Early GI Cancer

Dear Colleagues,

GI cancer is one of the major neoplastic tumors in the world. Early detection and diagnosis are particularly important to improve the prognosis of the patients with the GI cancer. Advanced endoscopic imaging (e.g., narrow band imaging, bleu laser imaging, linked color imaging, etc.) enables us to diagnose precancerous lesions and early cancer lesions in the GI tracts. Additionally, recent developments of microscopic endoscopy (e.g., endoctytoscopy and confocal laser microendoscopy) allow us to observe cancerous lesions at a cellular level and have the potential to omit endoscopic biopsy to obtain tissue and histology with hematoxylin-eosin staining. Endoscopic resection is a standard technique for the minimally invasive and curative therapy of early GI cancer. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) enables us an en bloc resection of GI cancer lesions, regardless of diameter and fibrosis. ESD is needed for high skills of endoscopists, but newly devised techniques such as the clip-and-thread method make ESD procedure easier and safer. Additionally, new ESD techniques are applied for the resection of laryngopharyngeal cancer. In this Special Issue, we invite manuscripts regarding advanced techniques in endoscopic diagnosis and treatment in early cancer, not only in the stomach and intestine, but also the esophagus and laryngopharynx.

Prof. Dr. Kenichi Goda
Guest Editor

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• image-enhanced endoscopy
• endoscopic diagnosis
• endoscopic treatment
• endoscopic resection
• endoscopic submucosal dissection
• laryngopharynx
• esophagus
• stomach
• small intestine
• large intestine