Source: Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Written by: Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Proofread by: Luo Kongjia, Zhai Huiwen
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

The 13th OESO World Congress was held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on August 31-September 3, 2015. OESO (World Organization of Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus, OESO) is an international scientific organization of world’s leading specialists from 19 disciplines, with the same research interest in esophagus. The OESO World Congress is one of the most important and historical world conferences in the domain of esophagology. This year, the theme of the conference was esophagiome, a concept which enlightened diverse aspects of the function and diseases of the esophagus, placing particular attention on the multiple disciplines.

Research teams from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC) and Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute (GECI) presented 10 papers, accounting for 30% of the total number of papers by Chinese researchers at the conference. All these researches focused on the standardization, minimal-invasion and precision therapy of esophageal cancer through different aspects. The research results in the presentations were highly recognized by the international peers. It represents a milestone in the developing history of esophageal cancer research in our university and will bring about more breakthroughs in the upcoming future.

Attached is a list of papers presented at the 13th OESO World Congress by SYSUCC researchers.

First Author	Title of Paper	Research Field
FU Jianhua	Identification and Validation of Lymphovascular Invasion as a Prognostic and Staging Factor in Node-negative Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma	Pathology
FU Jianhua	Prognostic Factors and Management in Primary Esophageal Small Cell Carcinoma	Multidisciplinary Therapy
FU Jianhua (HUANG Qingyuan)	Comparison of Survival between Minimally Invasive and Open Esophagectomy: A Propensity-Matched Analysis	Surgery
LIN Peng	Prognostic Risk Factors of Early Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Single-Institute Ten-year Experience	Surgery
WANG Xin (LIU Qianwen	Clinical outcomes and prognostic factors for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with radical esophagectomy	Surgery
YANG Hong	Intraoperative ultrasonography for the identification of thoracic recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma	Surgery
WEN Jing	Metastatic lymph nodes’ epithelial-mesenchymal transition phenotypes are distinct from primary tumors’ and associated with patient prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinomas	Molecular Medicine
WEN Jing	MIRNA expression analysis of pretreatment biopsies predicts the pathological response of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy	Molecular Medicine
LUO Kongjia	Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Versus Transthoracic Esophagectomy for Superficial Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma	Endoscopic Surgery
TAN Zihui	The Prognostic Significance of the Number of Negative Lymph Nodes in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer after Tri-incisional Esophagectomy	Surgery