Endoscopy in Early Gastrointestinal Cancers, Volume 2: Treatment covers the detailed information of the indications, techniques and perioperative management of endoscopic resection including endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).Carcinoma of the gastrointestinal tract remained a major health issue worldwide, which is, however notoriously difficult to treat. Endoscopic resection for early neoplasia of the gastrointestinal tract had been developed for more than 25 years. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a recently developed technique pioneer by Japanese endoscopists. The principle of ESD is to achieve a complete resection of gastrointestinal neoplasia limited to mucosa with adequate circumferential margins. This novel endoscopic technique not only allows the achievement of en-bloc resection for early GI cancers, it also conveys a significantly lower rate of local recurrence as compared to EMR for early gastric cancers. There is an urge for the knowledge in applying these novel technologies for the treatment of early GI neoplasia worldwide. This book on the endoscopic treatment of early GI neoplasia, containing lots of illustrations, artwork and numerous short video clips, serves as a bridge between the recent development in endoscopy and the knowledge of gastroenterologist, endoscopist and surgeons.


Philip WY Chiu is a professor at the Division of Upper GI Surgery, the Department of Surgery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China. He is also the director of CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Center and Chow Yuk Ho Technology Center for Innovative Medicine. Yasushi Sano is a professor, director and chief of the Gastrointestinal Center & Institute of minimally-invasive endoscopic care (iMEC), Sano Hospital, Kobe, Japan. Noriya Uedo is a professor and director of the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy Training and Learning Center, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer & Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan. Rajvinder Singh is a professor and director of Gastroenterology Department, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.