According to a major Swedish cohort study from researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Imperial College London, a surgeon who operates on oesophageal cancer must have performed 60 operations to prevent any lack ...
Mar 8, 2016
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On the 27th of September 2013 Tracy Collinson's world turned upside down. Seemingly out of nowhere, her husband Nigel – father to their two young boys – was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.
Aug 4, 2015
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Cancer Research UK scientists have found that 'jumping genes' may add to the genetic chaos behind more than three-quarters of oesophageal cancer cases, according to research published in BMC Genomics today.
Jul 9, 2015
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Researchers have devised a breath test that can help doctors diagnose the early signs of oesophageal and gastric cancer in minutes.
Jun 23, 2015
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Oesophageal cancer rates in men have increased by 50 per cent since the early 1980s, with new cases reaching almost 6,000, according to new statistics from Cancer Research UK.
Jun 8, 2015
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Obese women have around a 40 per cent greater risk of developing a weight-related cancer in their lifetime than women of a healthy weight, according to new figures released by Cancer Research UK today.
Mar 16, 2015
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Overweight children may be at higher risk of oesophageal (gullet) cancer when they grow up than their slimmer friends, according to research published this week in the British Journal of Cancer.
Feb 5, 2015
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Patients with a specific type of oesophageal cancer survived longer when they were given the latest lung cancer drug, according to trial results being presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference ...
Nov 4, 2014
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Swallowing a sponge on a string could replace traditional endoscopy as an equally effective but less invasive way of diagnosing a condition that can be a forerunner of oesophageal cancer.
Nov 3, 2014
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Queensland researchers have found that sudden "chromosomal catastrophes" may trigger a third of oesophageal tumours, the fastest rising cancer in Australia.
Oct 31, 2014
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