Daniel Boffa, chief of thoracic surgery at Yale. It works for diseases like breast, lung and colon cancer. In those cases, there's a clear progression of steps that leads to cancer — and only to ...

Esophageal cancer represents one of the most challenging and often overlooked digestive system malignancies, developing in the tube that connects your throat to your stomach. This aggressive ...

Surgery: If the cancer has not spread, surgeons may remove part of the esophagus, and sometimes, parts of surrounding organs such as the stomach. Chemotherapy: Doctors may suggest chemotherapy ...

According to Dr Akshat Malik, Principal Consultant, Surgical Oncology, Cancer Care/ Head & Neck Oncology, Robotic Surgery, ...

A "groundbreaking" cancer treatment trial by Memorial Sloan Kettering shows immunotherapy alone can eliminate some tumors, offering patients an alternative to chemotherapy and surgery.

In the prospective observational cohort study companion to this article, Sakanaka et al 1 treated patients with incurable esophageal cancer with palliative external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and ...

Similarly, the median OS was 72.1 months (95% CI: 24.9-119.2) for patients treated with surgery compared to 16.6 months (95% CI: 7.2-25.9) for those treated without surgery (p = 0.009). Conclusions: ...

At Kurnool KIMS Hospital, doctors successfully performed a rare airway stenting procedure on a 75-year-old woman with ...

Dr Akshat Malik, Principal Consultant, Surgical Oncology, Cancer Care/ Head & Neck Oncology, Robotic Surgery, Max Hospital ...

A new study found that the immunotherapy treatment worked against some types of cancers, allowing patients to avoid surgery and other types of more invasive treatment to cure their disease.

“For everybody that is diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the chance of surviving five years is about one in five,” said Dr. Clinton Morgan, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery.