Esophageal pain manifests as symptoms of heartburn and or chest pain. Esophageal pain is a type of visceral pain that is poorly localized owing to divergence of visceral afferents. The esophagus is ...

Esophageal cancer is a tumor that forms inside the esophagus. This tube starts in the back of the throat, goes through the ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Eating is something most of us take for granted. We do it three times a day – which adds up to more than a thousand meals a year, but what if you had trouble eating and ...

There are a variety of treatments for esophageal cancer, a form of cancer that affects your esophagus, or food pipe (the organ that connects your stomach to your throat). If you’ve recently been ...

Esophageal cancer is classified into adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, with dysphagia as a common symptom. Diagnosis involves endoscopy, biopsy, and imaging to confirm cancer presence and ...

Swallowing is an essential bodily process that allows the mouth to move substances, such as food or liquids, to the stomach through the pharynx (throat) and esophagus (a muscular, hollow tube that ...

Doctors ruled out a heart attack, but the patient had a sense that something was very wrong. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. The 52-year-old man pushed back from his dinner plate. A terrible pressure radiated ...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the esophagus that can sometimes be tricky to diagnose. Here are the diagnostic steps. Doctors thought EoE was rare when ...

A vitamin-sized diagnostic could be the future of esophageal cancer prevention. Cancer of the esophagus — the muscular tube that moves food from the mouth into the stomach — has just a 20% five-year ...