Alcohol abstinence and risk assessment for second esophageal cancer in Japanese men after mucosectomy for early esophageal cancer.

Alcohol consumption combined with inactive aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) and the presence of multiple esophageal Lugol-voiding lesions (LVLs; dysplasia) are strong predictors for multiple development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in East Asians. We invented a health risk appraisal...

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Main Authors: Akira Yokoyama, Chikatoshi Katada, Tetsuji Yokoyama, Tomonori Yano, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Ichiro Oda, Yuichi Shimizu, Hisashi Doyama, Tomoyuki Koike, Kohei Takizawa, Motohiro Hirao, Hiroyuki Okada, Takako Yoshii, Kazuo Konishi, Takenori Yamanouchi, Takashi Tsuda, Tai Omori, Nozomu Kobayashi, Haruhisa Suzuki, Satoshi Tanabe, Keisuke Hori, Norisuke Nakayama, Hirofumi Kawakubo, Hideki Ishikawa, Manabu Muto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5383267?pdf=render