Smoking Cessation and Risk of Esophageal Cancer by Histological Type : Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking strongly increases risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and moderately increases risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma. How smoking cessation influences esophageal cancer risk across histological subtypes, time latencies, and geographic regions is not clear.METHODS: Studies were systematically searched on Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Clinical