Session 44

 

Monday, September 4
4:15 – 6:15 pm

Room 18

 

 

Obesity and cancer

 

Chairs: David Nocca (France) – Kenric M. Murayama (USA)

Discussant: Manoel Galvao-Neto (Brazil) – Jaideepraj Rao (Singapore)

 

• Nutrition and Cancer (Keynote address). Mark J. Krasna (USA)

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• Is obesity a factor in patients with adenocarcinoma of the GE junction? Stephen J. Sontag (USA)
• What is different in obese esophageal cancer patients? Irene Kuchrer (Austria)
• Epidemiology of obesity and non-cancer co-morbidities. Dean Mikami (USA)
• Obesity-related cancers. Shanu Kothari (USA)
• What is the evidence for obesity as a risk factor for esophageal cancer? Nadja Niclauss (Switzerland)
• What are the particularities of the treatment of Barrett’s esophagus and GERD in the morbid obese patient? S.M. Chandramohan (India)
• Confocal microscopy in the workup of the bariatric patient. Hiroshi Mashimo (USA)