Professor Peter Sasieni from the Cancer Research UK’s cancer prevention trials unit at Queen Mary University of London said: ...

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 oesophagus is characterised by abnormal changes in the oesophageal lining and is considered a precursor to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Dr.

Sponge test ‘could benefit thousands of people’ with Barrett’s oesophagus In some people with the condition, cells grow abnormally and develop into oesophageal cancer.

A new study published in the Lancet medical journal found invasive endoscopies could be replaced for over half of patients with Barrett’s oesophagus. This condition occurs when stomach acid ...

The following month he had most of his oesophagus removed, along with a quarter of his stomach, after doctors found a four-centimetre tumour where his oesophagus and stomach met.