Esophageal in Biological News

NYU Langone Medical Center awarded NIH grants totaling $1,560,000

... on microbiome and psoriasis and on microbiome and esophageal cancer from the National Institutes of Health ... a grant to support his study on microbiome and esophageal cancer. Dr. Pei's work focuses on the type of ... that gastroesophageal reflux alters the esophageal microbiome and chronic exposure to an abnormal ...

University of Saskatchewan and Canadian Synchrotron researchers shed light on esophageal disease

... associated with the disease, which can lead to esophageal cancer. The finding is published in the June, ... tissue that Dr. Casson had collected during esophageal biopsies. Using a technique known as Fourier ... can lead to an aggressive form of cancer known as esophageal adenocarcinoma. Currently, diagnosing BE ...

Genetic predictors of esophageal cancer identified

... have identified 11 genotypes that may increase esophageal cancer risk, according to research published in ... "We observed a significantly increased risk of esophageal cancer with increasing numbers of risk ... Anderson Cancer Center. Major risk factors for esophageal cancer include obesity, smoking and ...

H. Pylori bacteria may help prevent some esophageal cancers

... help protect against the development of a type of esophageal cancer, known as adenocarcinoma, according to a ... H. pylori, has become less common, esophageal adenocarcinomas have increased. The study ... for this increase. Once a rare cancer, esophageal adenocarcinomas now constitute approximately half ...

Plasma DNA level is a reliable marker of recurrent esophageal cancer, study finds

... plasma DNA is a reliable marker of recurrent esophageal cancer. The study also suggests that plasma DNA ... recurrence in the majority of patients. esophageal cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death ... at a late stage. An accurate marker for detecting esophageal cancer that has spread (metastasized) beyond the ...

NIH expands Human Microbiome Project; funds sequencing centers and disease projects

... Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine Mouth and digestive tract: esophageal Adenocarcinoma $1 million This team will sample the oral cavity, ... to study the relationship of the microbiome from these body sites and esophageal cancer. Jacques Ravel, Ph.D., University of Maryland School of ...

Getting down to cancer basics

... called UTX - is found in 10% of cases of multiple myeloma and 8% of esophageal cancers. UTX plays a role in overall regulation of the activity of many ... cancer types - including one in ten multiple myeloma and one in twelve esophageal cancer cases. "This work shows that mutations in genes with different ...

Chemopreventive agents in black raspberries identified

... growth and stimulated apoptosis in the esophagus of rats treated with an esophageal carcinogen. "Our data provide strong evidence that anthocyanins are ... and found that the extract was nearly as effective in preventing esophageal cancer in rats as whole black raspberries containing the same ...

Tooth loss strongly linked to risk of esophageal, head and neck, and lung cancer

... found that people with tooth loss were 136 percent more likely to develop esophageal cancer, had a 68 percent increased risk of developing head and neck cancer ... the associations between tooth loss and cancer risk. For head and neck and esophageal cancers, there were clear associations between tooth loss and cancer risk ...

Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Awards

... of Barretts esophagus, a human pre-malignant neoplasm that can lead to esophageal cancer. His analysis of the genetics and molecular biology of Barretts ... a basis for predicting which patients are likely to progress to full-blown esophageal cancer. Maley is working to translate these findings to the development ...

Canadian synchrotron conference sheds light on new biomedical research

... to advances in environmental clean up and nanotechnology. Highlights include: Presentations by CLS users on using the synchrotron to study esophageal tumours, prion diseases such as BSE, watch nerves regenerate and treat tuberculosis Applications of synchrotron techniques to agricultural ...

Stowers Institute's Workman Lab discovers novel histone demethylase protein complex

... functions as an oncogene, which has the potential to cause a normal cell to become cancerous. Overexpression of such a gene product can lead to esophageal squamous carcinoma and prostate cancer. The Workman Lab's efforts to learn more about the dynamic regulation of H3K36 methylation may lead to the ...

AACR to host Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

... cancer associated with BRCA1/BRCA2 genetic mutations. How canola oil affects a person's risk for cancer. New data on alcohol and its effect on esophageal cancer. This popular Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference promotes public, academic, government and industry awareness of the ...

Anti-tumor therapy with endoscopic ultrasound may fight cancer more safely and effectively

... detect, biopsy and treat lesions and tumors that lie outside the intestinal wall. This technique is particularly useful in patients with pancreatic, esophageal and rectal cancer. "Curvilinear endosonography will likely become the dominant technology within the field of EUS," said co-chairman of EUS2008, ...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

... gastroenterologist and director of Stanford's esophageal and Small Bowel Disorder Center, said the stream ... beverages) can reduce the pressure exerted by the esophageal sphincter, the control valve that keeps the food ... Heartburn is most commonly caused when the esophageal sphincter relaxes more often than it is supposed ...

8 plants from South Africa may hold potential for treating high blood pressure

... with traditional African medicines to heal the sick. While plants have been used in African medicine to treat fever, asthma, constipation, esophageal cancer and hypertension, scientific analyses of the purported benefits of many plants is still scant. A team of researchers has now examined the ...

Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals

... discharge database. The procedures included elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass grafting, carotid endarterectomy, esophageal cancer resection, hip fracture repair, lung cancer resection, cardiac valve replacement, coronary angioplasty, pancreatic cancer resection, and total ...

Montreal researchers identify defects of immune cells

... for the infection and, eventually, preventing it. They are described in an article of the July 1st issue of The Journal of Immunology. Oral and esophageal Candida albicans infections, which often affect individuals infected with HIV, may limit food consumption and lead to weight loss, threatening ...

Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy

... drug. Sunitinib is being tested now, as well, on patients with advanced forms of bladder cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, esophageal cancer, head and neck tumours, liver cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer. The ...

Scientists look to the Bahamas as a model for coral reef conservation

... On the one hand, this has been accompanied by a drop in the incidence of gastric cancer and ulcers. On the other, there has been an increase in esophageal cancer. H. pylori appear to protect against cancer of the esophagus. "So that says that there might be something about persistent infection that ...

Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits

... On the one hand, this has been accompanied by a drop in the incidence of gastric cancer and ulcers. On the other, there has been an increase in esophageal cancer. H. pylori appear to protect against cancer of the esophagus. "So that says that there might be something about persistent infection that ...

Smoking damages key regulatory enzyme in the lung

... Americans than AIDS, illegal drugs, alcohol, car accidents, suicides and murders combined and increases one's chances of developing lung, bladder, esophageal and throat cancers; chronic lung diseases; and coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases. Fowler and her colleagues have been studying MAO for ...