Oesophageal cancer articles from across Nature Portfolio

Oesophageal cancer is a malignancy of the oesophagus or ‘food pipe’. It is a rare malignancy. Nearly all oesophageal cancer are squamous cell carcinomas (cancer arising from the flat cells of the oesophagus mucosa) or adenocarcinomas (cancer arising from the glandular cells of the oesophagus submucosa).

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