This book provides comprehensive and practical guidance for the management of esophageal cancer. It presents a detailed review of the pathophysiology, clinical staging, treatment, and outcomes of patients with esophageal cancer. Chapters cover the epidemiology of the disease, latest diagnostic and staging tools, systemic therapies, and the current open and minimally invasive surgical techniques including transhiatal, Ivor Lewis and McKeown esophagectomy.

1. Esophageal anatomy.- 2. Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer: Pathogenesis and Epidemiology.- 3. Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Pathogenesis and Epidemiology.- 4. Staging of esophageal cancer: Implications for therapy.- 5. Endoscopic Therapy for Superficial Esophageal Cancer.- 6. Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy.- 7. Restaging after neoadjuvant therapy.- 8. Anesthetic concerns for esophageal surgery.- 9. Transhiatal Esophagectomy.- 10. Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy.- 11. McKeown Esophagectomy.- 12. En Bloc Esophagectomy.- 13. Fundamentals of Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy.- 14. Minimally Invasive Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy.- 15. Hybrid Esophagectomy.- 16. Colonic Interposition after Esophagectomy.- 17. Perioperative care and management of post-operative complications.- 18. Volume and Outcomes in Esophageal Cancer Surgery.- 19. Quality of life after Esophagectomy.- 20. Palliative Treatment of Esophageal Cancer.- 21. Future Directions in Esophageal Cancer.