Oesophageal cancer initiative: Frere Hospital stent placement training workshop

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Oesophageal Cancer Initiative

Abstract

Oesophageal cancer is the seventh most common cause of cancer worldwide and the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Oesophageal cancer kills 400 000 people every year, most of whom live in two distinct geographic bands across central Asia and along the eastern Africa corridor extending from Ethiopia to South Africa. In these high-risk areas, all cases are oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. The vast majority of the patients with this disease present late in the African corridor.

Author Biographies

Sandie R Thomson, University of Cape Town

Emeritus Professor of Gastroenterology Division of Gastroenterology University of Cape Town, South Africa

Lucien Ferndale, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Surgical Gastroenterologist, Department of Surgery, Greys Hospital and the Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Anders C Grotte, Frere Hospital

Consultant Surgeon, Frere Hospital, South Africa

Marc Topazian, Mayo Clinic

Gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, a founder member of AfrECC, who has for the past five years, with his wife Janet lived and worked in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Published

2025-08-07

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

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News