Esophageal Cancer

Control Acid Reflux to Prevent Esophageal Cancer

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, July 16th, 2007

For most of his adult life, 49-year-old Jim Bonell suffered from acid reflux, but he never considered the condition dangerous. That is, until he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

What Bonell didn’t know was that his chronic acid reflux left him with a condition called Barrett’s esophagus, which puts people at high risk for esophageal cancer. Barrett’s is a condition in which the cells lining the lower esophagus change because of repeated exposure to stomach acid. Normally, the tissue lining the esophagus is similar to the lining in your mouth (squamous mucosa), but with Barrett’s, the body replaces the normal esophageal lining with one similar to that found in the...

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