esophagus

A groundbreaking study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago determined the threshold for a new measure of early scarring in the esophagus of children with…

EsoCap AG organized a multidisciplinary scientific advisory board meeting with eight international experts in Barrett’s esophagus (BE) in ZurichEsoCap’s technology for the topical treatment…

Adults in middle age showed an increasing trend of developing more Barrett's esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma…

Physician’s Briefing Staff FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- While the prevalence of Barrett esophagus (BE) and esophageal cancer (EC) appears to…

More and more mutations clutter up our DNA as we age. Mostly, these don't cause problems. But sometimes, a switch will flip, and a mutated cell turns cancerous. Can we see this shift in time…

If left untreated, many animals regurgitate their food and aspirate food into their lungs, causing aspiration pneumonia. "The literature tells us that many…

For most cells within the body, identity is non-negotiable. A bladder cell cannot impersonate a blood cell. A liver cell remains a liver cell. One of the rare exceptions has been thought to…

A team including researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a digital tool to better monitor a condition known as Barrett's esophagus, which…

Cells carrying mutations can out compete early tumours in the mouse esophagus, so they never make it into cancers, new research has shown. Normal human esophagus is a patchwork of cells…

Abnormal cells that go on develop into oesophageal cancer - cancer that affects the tube connecting the mouth and stomach - start life as cells of the stomach, according to scientists at the…