Endoscopic Imaging for the Diagnosis of Neoplastic and Pre-Neoplastic Conditions of the Stomach

• Published in: Cancers Vol. 15; no. 9; p. 2445
• Main Authors: Martins, Bruno Costa, Moura, Renata Nobre, Kum, Angelo So Taa, Matsubayashi, Carolina Ogawa, Marques, Sergio Barbosa, Safatle-Ribeiro, Adriana Vaz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25-04-2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Antimitotic agents; Antineoplastic agents; Artificial intelligence; Biopsy; Cancer; Care and treatment; Diagnosis; Endoscopy; Family medical history; Gastric cancer; Imaging systems; Infections; Lesions; Medical prognosis; Mortality; Prognosis; Radiography; Review; Stomach cancer; Surveillance; early diagnosis; endoscopy; early detection of cancer; gastric cancer; artificial intelligence
• ISSN: 2072-6694; 2072-6694
• DOI: 10.3390/cancers15092445

Gastric cancer is an aggressive disease with low long-term survival rates. An early diagnosis is essential to offer a better prognosis and curative treatment. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is the main tool for the screening and diagnosis of patients with gastric pre-neoplastic conditions and early lesions. Image-enhanced techniques such as conventional chromoendoscopy, virtual chromoendoscopy, magnifying imaging, and artificial intelligence improve the diagnosis and the characterization of early neoplastic lesions. In this review, we provide a summary of the currently available recommendations for the screening, surveillance, and diagnosis of gastric cancer, focusing on novel endoscopy imaging technologies.