There are a variety of treatments for esophageal cancer, a form of cancer that affects your esophagus, or food pipe (the organ that connects your stomach to your throat). If you’ve recently been ...

Preoperative CRT and chemotherapy significantly improve overall survival in AEG patients compared to surgery alone, reducing death risk by 25% and 22%, respectively. Both treatment modalities show ...

Cryotherapy isn’t a curative treatment for stage 4 esophageal cancer. Instead, it’s used to relieve one of the major symptoms of this stage: difficulty swallowing. Esophageal cancer in stage 4 can be ...

Esophageal cancer represents one of the most challenging and often overlooked digestive system malignancies, developing in the tube that connects your throat to your stomach. This aggressive disease ...

The esophagus is the organ in the throat that moves food from the mouth to the stomach. Esophageal cancers make up approximately 1% of cancer diagnoses in the U.S., making them rare. Because many ...

La Peer Health Systems in Beverly Hills, Calif., has announced it is offering a new treatment for Barrett’s esophagus, according to a news release. Physicians in the surgery center’s department of ...

Trinity St James's Cancer Institute (TSJCI) researchers demonstrated the power of a structured, quality-assured Barrett's ...

A project at Johns Hopkins University has developed a multifunctional ablative gastrointestinal imaging capsule (MAGIC) for esophagus surveillance and interventions. Described by the project as "a ...

Esophageal cancer remains plagued by a lack of effective techniques to detect early malignancies. Due to this major clinical challenge, esophageal cancer cases are often diagnosed at an advanced stage ...