Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) identified a potential new therapeutic target for eosinophilic ...

A person with bulimia nervosa may regularly induce vomiting after eating. Doctors refer to this practice as purging. Purging behavior in bulimia may increase a person’s risk of esophageal cancer.

Doctors may perform endoscopies to diagnose esophageal cancer. They may also order laboratory tests and other imaging tests, such as MRI and CT scans, to confirm the diagnosis and determine whether ...

Esophageal cancer is a serious disease that affects the esophagus, the tube carrying food from the throat to the stomach. It ...

Dupilumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody, blocks interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 signaling, which have key roles in eosinophilic esophagitis. We conducted a three-part, phase 3 trial in which ...

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 ...

Driven by obesity (which leads to GERD) and a decrease in the occurrence of a stomach infection (H. pylori) that reduced the acidity of stomach juice, esophageal cancer has become the fastest rising ...

ESOPHAGEAL CANCER has undergone dramatic changes in epidemiology, management, and outcome in the past two to three decades. The epidemiologic changes are perhaps the most dramatic. Twenty years ago, ...

If you smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol daily, you may want to consider letting your tea cool before you enjoy it. Drinking tea while it’s too hot could increase your risk of esophageal cancer, a new ...