September 18, 2024 by Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainApproximately 600 times a day, the esophagus ferries whatever is in your mouth down to your stomach. It’s usually a one-way route, but sometimes acid escapes the stomach and travels back up. That can damage the cells lining the esophagus, prompting them to...
July 30, 2024 by Chinese Academy of Sciences diagram of esophageal cancer cell identification research process. Credit: GE DianlongA research team led by Prof. Chu Yannan from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences adopted a methionine regulation strategy and found that esophageal cancer cells can be identified by two...
MAY 17, 2024 by American Gastroenterological Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe American Gastroenterological Association’s (AGA) new evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline on Endoscopic Eradication Therapy of Barrett’s Esophagus and Related Neoplasia, published today in Gastroenterology, establishes updated guidance for Barrett’s esophagus patients. A precursor to esophageal cancer, Barrett’s esophagus is a condition in which the cells...
by University of Cambridge Credit: Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald/University of CambridgeA man from Cambridge is the first to join the surveillance part of a clinical trial that could see routine screening for esophageal cancer introduced into the NHS, potentially halving deaths from this cancer every year. The capsule sponge, known as the pill-on-a-thread, is a quick and...
by University of Oxford New study offers hope in early detection of oesophageal cancer. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences have developed a new tool to predict people’s risks of getting esophageal cancer in the next ten years. Researchers in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University...
by Bill Lubinger, Case Western Reserve University A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that folds back upon itself. Credit: Vossman/ Wikipedia Irregularities in the body’s genetic coding to make proteins are linked to cancerous tumors. But most...
by DeeDee Stiepan, Mayo Clinic Credit: Mayo Clinic News Network Esophageal cancer, which is cancer that occurs in the esophagus—a long, hollow tube that runs from your throat to your stomach—is on the rise in the U.S. “We think esophageal cancer is on the rise with the obesity pandemic as well as with the problem with the increase in reflux in the United...
by Cancer Research UK Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100541 A group of drugs commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction may be able to boost the effect of chemotherapy in esophageal cancer, according to new research. This research, published today (Tuesday) in Cell Reports Medicine, found that the drugs, known as PDE5 inhibitors can reverse chemotherapy...
by Caslon Hatch, Johns Hopkins University Intermediate magnification micrograph of an intramucosal esophageal adenocarcinoma, a type of esophageal cancer. H&E stain. Endoscopic mucosal resection specimen. The images show normal squamous epithelium (right of image) and an adenocarcinoma (left of image). The adenocarcinoma has a typical morphology; it is composed of cohesive clusters of cells arranged...
by American Gastroenterological Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Adults aged 45 to 64 experienced a nearly doubled rate of esophageal cancer and a 50 percent increase in the precancerous condition Barrett’s esophagus between 2012 and 2019, according to a database analysis of roughly five million patients to be presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “This...
