Understanding gut transit time can help improve digestive health and even refine eating habits. An article published in The ...

Nobody seemed to know for sure, but every once in a while someone in the discussion would float a suggestion that made ...

MGMGH doctors successfully remove large food mass from oesophagus using minimally invasive endoscopy procedure, avoiding surgery.

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

Impact of time to surgery on outcomes in patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma following neoadjuvant therapy: An exploratory analysis of phase III trial JCOG1109. This is an ASCO ...

Jens Hoeppner, MD, from Bielefeld University in Detmold, Germany, and colleagues conducted a phase 3 multicenter trial involving patients with resectable esophageal adenocarcinoma who were ...

The best multimodal approach for resectable locally advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma is unclear. An important question is whether perioperative chemotherapy is preferable to preoperative ...

Digestion begins in your mouth. Your teeth grind the food you eat and mix it with saliva to form a kind of ball, known as a bolus. Your esophagus is a flattened muscular tube that connects your mouth ...

Dysphagia and food bolus obstruction are the classic clinical presentations in this age group and reflect an eosinophil-induced esophageal dysmotility disorder. In the present case, exposure to ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic (long-term) condition affecting the esophagus, the tube that carries food and liquids from the mouth to the stomach. EoE causes symptoms like difficulty ...

Your doctor passes a long flexible tube (endoscope) into your oesophagus. It has a tiny camera and light on the end. The surgeon then passes special instruments through the tube and removes the cancer ...