RESEARCH COMMUNICATION Role of Preoperative Chemotherapy in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus in Kashmir, a Cancer Belt - A Pilot Study
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Esophageal cancer is one of the ten most common malignancies worldwide (Parkin et al., 1999). The Kashmir region because of its geographical location is a part of the so called “Asian Esophageal Cancer Belt” (Deshpande et al., 2000), which extends from the northern provinces of China in the east to the southern shores of Caspian Sea in the west. It is one of the most common malignancies seen in the Kashmir valley with incidence reported to be in the range of 43.6/1, 00,000 population (Khuroo et al., 1992). Surgery until recently was the mainstay in the management of esophageal cancer. However the long term
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