食管癌是我国高发恶性肿瘤之一，河南林州（原名林县）的食管癌防治研究工作一直受到党和政府的支持与关心。自60年代以来，中国医学科学院肿瘤研究所肿瘤医院、河南医科大学连同当地卫生工作者一直致力于食管癌的病因学、发病学的研究，并自1983年开始在中国医学科学院肿瘤研 Esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in China. The prevention and treatment of esophageal cancer in Linzhou, Henan (formerly known as Lin County) has received support and concern from the Party and the government. Since the 1960s, the Cancer Hospital of the Cancer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the Henan Medical University, and local health workers have been working on the etiology and pathogenesis of esophageal cancer, and have been conducting research in the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences since 1983.