RT Book, Section A1 Onaitis, Mark W. A1 Harpole, David H. A2 Barbeito, Atilio A2 Shaw, Andrew D. A2 Grichnik, Katherine SR Print(0) ID 56783133 T1 Chapter 7. The Biology of Lung and Esophageal Cancer T2 Thoracic Anesthesia YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-162566-1 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56783133 RD 2024/04/25 AB Over the past decades, it has become recognized that cancer is a genetic disease. Therefore, the biology of lung and esophageal cancer must be considered from the perspective of genetic changes in the epithelial cells of these organs. In this chapter, we will highlight many of these known individual genetic changes as well as groups of genetic changes.