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Specialized doctors worldwide

Who conducts esophageal cancer research? Everyone here comes from a public registry: as a principal investigator of a study at ClinicalTrials.gov, or as a last author of publications in PubMed. These are two different things, so we list them in two columns side by side instead of combining them into a single number.

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Leads the most studies

Registered as principal investigator at ClinicalTrials.gov. Setting up and running a study is years of work.

  1. 1 David H. Ilson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States leads 16 studies register →
  2. 2 Padmanee Sharma UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Genitourinary Med Onc, United States leads 15 studies register →
  3. 3 Guillermo Tearney Massachusetts General Hospital, United States leads 13 studies register →
  4. 4 Huilong Liu Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, China leads 13 studies register →
  5. 5 Nicholas J Shaheen UNC Chapel Hill, United States leads 13 studies register →
  6. 6 Prasad G. Iyer Mayo Clinic, United States leads 12 studies · 8 publications as last author register →
  7. 7 Lin Shen Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, China leads 12 studies · 6 publications as last author register →
  8. 8 Hanneke W.M. van Laarhoven Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA), Netherlands leads 12 studies register →
  9. 9 Steven H. Lin M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, United States leads 12 studies register →
  10. 10 Luo-Wei Wang Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China leads 10 studies · 5 publications as last author register →

Also leading

  1. 11 David S. Schrump National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States leads 10 studies register →
  2. 12 Jaffer A. Ajani M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, United States leads 10 studies register →
  3. 13 Kenneth K. Wang Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States leads 10 studies register →
  4. 14 Peter C. Enzinger Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States leads 10 studies register →
  5. 15 Jing Huang Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China leads 9 studies register →
  6. 16 Shugeng Gao The First Affiliated Hospital, and College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, China leads 9 studies register →
  7. 17 Yelena Y Janjigian Academic and Community Cancer Research United, United States leads 9 studies register →
  8. 18 Feng Wang The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China leads 8 studies · 14 publications as last author register →
  9. 19 Aminah Jatoi Mayo Clinic, United States leads 8 studies register →
  10. 20 Haiquan Chen Fudan University, China leads 8 studies register →
  11. 21 Jacques J.G.H.M. Bergman Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, Netherlands leads 8 studies register →
  12. 22 Jianguo Sun Xinqiao Hospital of Chongqing, China leads 8 studies register →
  13. 23 Christian C Abnet National Cancer Institute (NCI), China leads 7 studies register →
  14. 24 Cunningham, David Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom leads 7 studies register →
  15. 25 Jingjing Wang 2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China leads 7 studies register →

Publishes most about this disease

Counted as last author on publications from the last five years — in medicine the leader of the research group. This also includes physicians who do not register studies but do advance the field.

  1. 1 Hiroya Takeuchi Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan 19 publications as last author PubMed →
  2. 2 Feng Wang The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China leads 8 studies · 14 publications as last author register →
  3. 3 Xuefeng Leng Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, China 14 publications as last author PubMed →
  4. 4 Yuichiro Doki Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 13 publications as last author PubMed →
  5. 5 Yuko Kitagawa Keio University School of Medicine, Japan 13 publications as last author PubMed →
  6. 6 Kazutaka Obama Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 12 publications as last author PubMed →
  7. 7 Dimitrios Schizas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 11 publications as last author PubMed →
  8. 8 Bin Zheng Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, China 11 publications as last author PubMed →
  9. 9 Hiroyuki Daiko National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan 11 publications as last author PubMed →
  10. 10 Masayuki Watanabe Cancer Institute Hospital, Japan 11 publications as last author PubMed →

Also leading

  1. 11 Luigi Bonavina University of Milan, Italy 10 publications as last author PubMed →
  2. 12 Hiroshi Miyata Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan 10 publications as last author PubMed →
  3. 13 Qifeng Wang Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, China 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  4. 14 Yong Yuan West China Hospital 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  5. 15 Tomonori Yano National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  6. 16 Mingqiang Kang Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, China 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  7. 17 Alexander Quaas Institute of Pathology, Germany 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  8. 18 Tomoharu Yoshizumi Kyushu University, Japan 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  9. 19 Ziqiang Tian The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China 9 publications as last author PubMed →
  10. 20 Prasad G. Iyer Mayo Clinic, United States leads 12 studies · 8 publications as last author register →
  11. 21 Ken Kato National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan 8 publications as last author PubMed →
  12. 22 Kuaile Zhao Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, China 8 publications as last author PubMed →
  13. 23 Richard van Hillegersberg University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands 8 publications as last author PubMed →
  14. 24 Manabu Kawai Wakayama Medical University, Japan 8 publications as last author PubMed →
  15. 25 Jesper Lagergren Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 8 publications as last author PubMed →

Counted from ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed, updated on 2026-08-10. Is something incorrect, or would you prefer not to be listed? Let us know — we'll adjust it.

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