During digestion, the body breaks these compounds down into smaller parts ... As the bolus moves through the esophagus, these contractions push it toward the stomach. The bolus enters the stomach ...

Immunotherapy let some cancer patients with mismatch repair deficient tumors completely avoid surgery, chemo and radiation, a ...

A new, small cancer study may give hope to patients with solid tumors in the stomach, esophagus or rectum. The standard ...

Digestive gas gets the best of everyone sooner or later, often in the form of a burp. Burping is how the body clears excess ...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also known as gastro oesophageal reflux disease, is more than just the occasional ...

For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an ...

Doctors at Huntsman Cancer Hospital removed the 36-year-old woman’s real stomach less than two weeks ago, a preventive ...

They do this by relaxing the lower esophageal sphincter, which allows stomach acid to flow back into ... Dental erosion happens when acids wear away the hard parts of your teeth.

and would have required the removal of part of her esophagus and stomach, followed by chemotherapy and radiation, a treatment she said, “would have been horrendous.” But she had immunotherapy ...