[Treatment of patients with esophageal cancer in Argentina. Surgery or clinical research?].

In Accident the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has increased at a rate exceeding that of all other tumors. In Argentina, the incidence of cancer of the oesophagus is unknown and patients are treated according to the classic medical or institutional experience and usually local and poorly effective treatment modalities are used. Currently, the prognosis of patients with this condition is very poor and there is a need to explore new therapeutics. We think that instead of treating patients with classic modalities with predictable results, the aim should be a search of alternatives based on clinical research.