ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines: Gastrointestinal cancers

The ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are intended to provide the user with a set of recommendations for the best standards of cancer care, based on the findings of evidence-based medicine.

Latest enhanced and revised set of guidelines

ESMO has Clinical Practice Guidelines on the following Gastrointestinal Cancers: Oesophageal Cancer, Gastric Cancer, Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), Biliary Cancer, Primary Colon Cancer, Familial Colorectal Cancer Risk, Rectal Cancer, Anal Cancer and Advanced Colorectal Cancer (CRC). They include information on:

  • incidence
  • diagnosis
  • staging and risk assessment
  • treatment and response evaluation
  • follow-up

Oesophageal cancer

Published in2010
Authors: M. Stahl, W. Budach, H.-J. Meyer, A. Cervantes
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Gastric cancer

Published in 2010
Authors: A. Okines, M. Verheij, W. Allum, D. Cunningham, A. Cervantes
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Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Published in 2012
Authors: T. Seufferlein, J.B. Bachet, E. Van Cutsem, P. Rougier
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

Published in 2012
Authors: C. Verslype, O. Rosmorduc, P. Rougier
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Biliary cancer

Published in 2011
Authors: F. Eckel, T. Brunner, S. Jelic
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Primary colon cancer

Published in 2010
Authors: R. Labianca, B. Nordlinger, G. D. Beretta, A. Brouquet, A. Cervantes
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Familial colorectal cancer risk

Published in 2010
Authors: J. Balmaña, A. Castella, A. Cervantes
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Rectal cancer

Published in 2010
Authors: B. Glimelius, L. Påhlman, A. Cervantes
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Anal cancer

Published in 2010
Authors: R. Glynne-Jones, J. M. A. Northover, A. Cervantes
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Advanced colorectal cancer

Published in 2010
Authors: E. Van Cutsem, B. Nordliner, A. Cervantes
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