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Esophageal Cancer Prevention

What is prevention? Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer. To prevent new...

Esophageal Cancer Statistics

At a Glance Estimated New Cases in 2017: 16,940 % of All New Cancer Cases: 1.0% Estimated Deaths in 2017: 15,690 % of All Cancer Deaths: 2.6% Percent Surviving 5: Years 18.8% (2007-2013) Number of New Cases and Deaths per 100,000: The number of new cases of esophageal...

Fibromyalgia Pathophysiology

Focusing on Fibromyalgia A Puzzling and Painful Condition   You’ve probably heard of fibromyalgia, but you may not know what it is. Fibromyalgia is a long-term (chronic) pain condition that affects 5 million or more Americans ages 18 and older. For unknown...

Gastritis Summary

Gastritis Introduction Gastritis is an inflammation of the stomach lining. Many things can cause gastritis, but most often it is caused by an infection of the bacteria H pylori. Gastritis may come on suddenly (acute gastritis) or gradually (chronic gastritis). In most...

Fibromyalgia Treatment

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia affects about 4 million US adults, about 2% of the adult population. The cause of fibromyalgia is not known and there is no long-term cure, but it can be effectively treated and managed. Treatments tend to suppress or decrease pain, improve...