Screening for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Should We Use Barrett ’s Screening Protocols?

We read with great interest the recently published article by Sawas et  al,1 evaluating the limitations of heartburn and other societies’ criteria in Barrett’s esophagus (BE) screening for detecting de novo esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). The authors reported that 54.9% of patients in the Mayo Clinic cohort and 38.9% in the UK cohort of EAC did not fulfill the Am erican College of Gastroenterology or the British Society of Gastroenterology criteria for BE screening, respectively. Among the patients not fulfilling the screening criteria, 86.5% in the Mayo Clinic and 61.4% in the UK cohort did not have heartburn.
Source: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research