This book aims at highlighting the present and very dynamic development in the field of upper GI cancers. Oesophageal and gastric cancer are diseases with poor prognosis. Looking back to history enormous efforts to treat these serious malignancies have been dated already to the ancient periods. The introductory chapter of this issue is therefore dedicated to history of gastric cancer that is tightly connected to history of development of surgical techniques. Surgery remains the basic cornerstone of the treatment of localized oesophageal and gastric cancer and chapters attributed to Multidisciplinary approach to oesophageal and gastric cancer - Radka Obermannová od authora Radka Obermannová a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.