Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a symptom of a disease, condition, or injury affecting any part of the gastrointestinal tract. The GI tract includes the esophagus, stomach, small intestine ...

A gastrointestinal bleed occurs when there is bleeding in the upper or lower digestive tract. Common causes include peptic ulcers, hemorrhoids, and GI cancers.

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is bleeding that occurs in the digestive tract. This article looks at causes, symptoms, treatment, and more.

GI cancers are associated with substantial mortality risk. Colorectal, pancreatic and gastroesophageal malignancies accounted for 27.1% of worldwide cancer-related deaths in 2020, according to ...

Infection of the GI tract may figure prominently in long COVID, the study authors suggest. Led by Aravind Natarajan, PhD, with the Departments of Genetics and Medicine at Stanford University, they ...

Journal reference: Hirt, H., et al. (2022) Dynamics of plasmid-mediated niche invasion, immunity to invasion, and pheromone-inducible conjugation in the murine gastrointestinal tract.

Key Takeaways Cabometyx improved PFS in extrapancreatic NETs with GI tract origin, showing a median PFS of 8.5 months versus 5.6 months for placebo. Benefits were observed across clinical factors, ...