Esophageal cancer associated with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. Could chronic candidiasis lead to esophageal cancer?

Medical Mycology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-205

  Domingues Ferreira, Mauricio ^a   Grumach, Anete Sevciovic ^a   Duarte, Alberto Jose Da Silva ^a   De Moraes Vasconcelos, Dewton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candida infection; Carcinogens; Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis; Esophageal cancer; Nitrosamines; Primary immunodeficiencies

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; RESPIRATORY ARREST; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS, CHRONIC MUCOCUTANEOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE;

CANDIDA;

EID: 59249086355     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780802342545     Document Type: Article

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