There's a new way for those who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease to determine if it's more than just heartburn. The condition can also be an early sign of cancer. David Brown is one of the ...
What Is an EndoFLIP Procedure? EndoFLIP stands for endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe. This newer technology is a minimally invasive way of measuring the area inside a gastrointestinal organ ...
‌The esophagus is the tube that connects your throat and stomach. Esophagoscopy is a medical procedure that allows your doctor to look inside your esophagus. This procedure helps your doctor diagnose ...
A combination of esophageal brushing and extensive genetic sequencing of the sample collected can detect chromosome alterations in people with Barrett's Esophagus, identifying patients at risk for ...
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 ...
Most of the population has experienced heartburn or acid reflux on one occasion or another. But more than 15 million Americans have recurrent acid reflux issues, known as gastroesophageal reflux ...
An esophageal cancer survivor noted that recovering from surgery to treat the disease was “grueling,” but he said he was eventually able to return to some normalcy with his ability to eat his favorite ...
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chicago-based medical device firm Attune Medical’s ensoETM is being evaluated in numerous ongoing clinical studies to investigate device efficacy in reducing thermal injury ...
A combination of esophageal brushing and extensive genetic sequencing of the sample collected can detect chromosome alterations in people with Barrett's Esophagus, identifying patients at risk for ...