Thousands of people being monitored for food pipe cancer could be spared invasive tests thanks to a “sponge on a string” ...

Oesophageal cancer, often stealthy and lethal, ranks among the top ten cancers globally. Early symptoms are easily mistaken ...

Endoscopies could be replaced by far less invasive capsule sponge tests for half of all patients with Barrett’s oesophagus, a ...

Thousands of individuals currently monitored for food pipe cancer could be spared invasive diagnostic procedures thanks to a groundbreaking "sponge on a string" test, new research suggests. A study ...

A small pill on a thread that researchers believe could help detect oesophageal cancer earlier has been trialled in testing ...

Cancer of the oesophagus, or gullet, is curable but in most cases the outlook is poor. Latest available figures show that in 1996 a total of 7,064 people in the UK were diagnosed with the disease ...

The ‘pill-on-a-thread’ test invented in Cambridge could be used as a far less invasive alternative to endoscopies for half of ...

Barrett's esophagus (British English: Barrett's oesophagus), sometimes called Barrett's syndrome or columnar epithelium lined lower oesophagus (CELLO), refers to an abnormal change (metaplasia) in ...

Gastric reflux in infants and children is often mistaken for normal spitting up but persistent symptoms may signal GERD Learn ...

A MUM-TO-BE pushed so hard during labour that she ended up rupturing her oesophagus. The 24-year-old, who has not been named, went into labour at 38 weeks in a hospital in London. Everything seemed… ...

Endoscopies could be replaced by far less invasive capsule sponge tests for half of all patients with Barrett’s oesophagus, a known precursor to esophageal cancer, according to a new study from ...