ORPHA:418945
Carcinoma of esophagus, salivary gland type
Also known as: Esophageal carcinoma, salivary gland type
Publications
0
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
0
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
1/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare gastroesophageal tumor characterized by a typically submucosal tumor occurring usually in the middle to distal esophagus and histologically characterized as either mucoepidermoid (intimate mixture of mucus, intermediate, and epidermoid cells) or as adenoid cystic carcinoma (biphasic admixture of duct‐lining epithelial and myoepithelial cells with tubular, cribriform, solid, or basaloid growth patterns). Patients may be asymptomatic or may present with dysphagia, heartburn, retrosternal pain and/or weight loss.
How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0018480
- UMLS:C5190854
Additional Mondo synonyms (1)
esophageal carcinoma, salivary gland type
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
1/6 stages with a signal
No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteratureNot found
No matched Europe PMC hits under our query rules Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- Interventional trialPartial
None under the specific name; 16 for broader category carcinoma of esophagus
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
Not enriched in this build.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
0
We found no papers under this exact name — work may still exist under another label.
0 in the last 10 years · low confidence
Phrase hits: 0 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
0
Distinct author names in 0 sampled papers.
Who's working on it?
No author names could be extracted from the sampled publications. Try the Europe PMC query in “How we counted this,” or contact an umbrella rare-disease organisation for researcher referrals.
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
0
interventional trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name. 1 observational study did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial. 16 trials are registered for carcinoma of esophagus, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.
Data as of 27 July 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
low confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
16 interventional trials matched carcinoma of esophagus, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.
Broader category: carcinoma of esophagus
16
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.
Observational and natural-history studies
1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.
Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting
- NCT06393140·RECRUITING·The Study on the Mechanism of Radiotherapy-elicited Immune Response
Conditions: Esophageal Carcinoma Salivary Gland Type · Radiotherapy·Matched via name phrase
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Carcinoma of esophagus, salivary gland type" OR "Carcinoma of the esophagus, salivary gland type" OR "Esophageal carcinoma, salivary gland type"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Carcinoma of esophagus, salivary gland type" OR "Carcinoma of the esophagus, salivary gland type" OR "Esophageal carcinoma, salivary gland type"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"carcinoma of esophagus"
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
Parent literature probe: carcinoma of esophagus (MONDO:0019086) — 954 hits
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
- Zero publications but parent term carcinoma of esophagus has 954 — literature likely indexed under a broader name
Ingested 2026-07-27T15:45:45.841Z · excluded from neglect metrics