Final results from 10 year cohort of patients undergoing surveillance for Barrett's oesophagus: observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To review the benefit of an endoscopic surveillance programme for patients with Barrett's oesophagus.

Design

Observational study.

Setting

University teaching hospital.

Participants

409 patients in whom Barrett's oesophagus was identified during 1984-94; 143 were entered into the annual surveillance programme.

Main outcome measures

Development of dysplasia and cancer and mortality.

Results

The average period of surveillance was 4.4 years; 55 patients were reassessed in 1994 but only eight remained in the programme in 1999, withdrawal being due to death (not from carcinoma of the oesophagus), illness, or frailty. Five of the patients who entered surveillance developed carcinoma of the oesophagus. Only one cancer was identified as a result

SUBMITTER: Macdonald CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27527 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature