Society guideline links: Esophageal cancer

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Gastroesophageal reflux in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Gastroesophageal reflux in children".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Barrett's esophagus".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Gastric cancer".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Esophagectomy".)

Canada

●Alberta Health Services (AHS): Clinical practice guideline on esophageal cancer (2021)

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Guideline on screening for esophageal adenocarcinoma in patients with chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease (2020)

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Preoperative or postoperative therapy for resectable esophageal cancer (2016)

●CCO: PET imaging in esophageal cancer (2010)

United States

●National Cancer Institute (NCI): Esophageal cancer – Health professional version

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on staging and follow-up of esophageal cancer (2022)

●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Guideline for the treatment of locally advanced esophageal carcinoma – Immunotherapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal carcinoma, rapid recommendation update (2021)

•ASCO: Guideline for the treatment of locally advanced esophageal carcinoma (2020)

●Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Practice guidelines on the role of multimodality treatment for cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction (2014)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on the role of endoscopy in the assessment and treatment of esophageal cancer (2013)

Europe

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline on esophageal stenting for benign and malignant disease, update (2021)

●Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO)-European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Pan-Asian adapted ESMO clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with metastatic oesophageal cancer (2019)

●ESMO: Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of oesophageal cancer (2016)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on oesophago-gastric cancer – Assessment and management in adults (2018)

●NICE: Quality standard on oesophago-gastric cancer (2018)

India

●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Consensus document for management of esophageal cancer (2017)

Australia-New Zealand

●Cancer Council Australia (CCA): Australian clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Barrett's oesophagus and early oesophageal adenocarcinoma (2015)

Japan

●[In English] Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES): Endoscopic submucosal dissection/endoscopic mucosal resection guidelines for esophageal cancer (2020)

●[In Japanese] JGES: ESD/EMR guidelines for esophageal cancer (2020)

●[In English] Japan Esophageal Society (JES): Esophageal cancer practice guidelines – Part 1, 2017 (published 2019)

●[In English] JES: Esophageal cancer practice guidelines – Part 2, 2017 (published 2019)

●[In English] Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO)-European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Pan-Asian adapted ESMO clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with metastatic oesophageal cancer (2019)

●[In Japanese] JES: Esophageal cancer practice guidelines, 4th edition (2017)