We also hope it will encourage others to learn more about this disease. This booklet has information on the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer of the esophagus. However, materials like these cannot answer every question or take the place of talks with doctors, nurses, and other member of the health care team. We hope our booklets will help with those talks. Throughout this booklet, words that may be new to readers are printed in italics .
Researchers continue to look for better ways to diagnose and treat cancer of the esophagus.