The esophagus is the tube that carries food from our mouth to our stomach. In lower end, it is exposed high acid of Stomach and it is markedly so, in the patient of reflux oesophagitis and the change that occurs in the esophagus, known as Barrett's esophagus, a pre-cancerous condition may lead to fatal lower end oesophageal carcinoma but if detected in early stage that can be completely cured. Barrett's esophagus is considered a precursor to a type of cancer called esophageal adenocarcinoma.
Now a pill-sized device that we can swallow might help detect a change in the esophagus that can lead to a deadly form of cancer, researchers are reporting where no need of cumbersome upper gi endoscopy and biopsy is needed. More than 80 percent of people diagnosed with this cancer die within five years. Yet, medical experts say that many of these deaths could be prevented if people were diagnosed…
