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Could teens get esophagus cancer?

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Dr. Eugene Ahn answered

Specializes in Integrative Medicine

Extremely rare: The scientific literature describes only case reports (individual cases) of esophagus cancer in teenage years, so it is possible but extremely unlikely. Factors which might increase risk include family history, certain nutritional deficiencies not likely to occur in the us or toxic exposures (lye, n-nitrosamines, etc).

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Answered 4/3/2016

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