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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Oesophageal carcinoma"”.
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A Study to Investigate Factors Involved in the Development of Oesophageal Carcinoma
… studies have suggested that patients with oesophageal adenocarcinoma are deficient in antioxidants. It is unknown whether the same holds true for patients with the precursor lesion, Barrett's oesophagus. The current study considered the hypothesis that patients with Barrett's oesophagus …
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Effectiveness of palliative measures in treatment of dysphagia of cancer of the oesophagus
… measures in improving the cardinal symptom of oesophageal carcinoma - dysphagia. Accurate staging in most, if not all of the cancers is paramount, as it determines which options and sequences of treatment are appropriate. Oesophageal carcinoma is no exception. For patients stage III/IV, …
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Demonstration of new subtypes of adenovirus 7 in South Africa, and probing oesophageal carcinoma cell lines for evidence of adenovirus or of other oncogenic viruses
… 7; 2. Search for a possible viral aetiology in oesophageal carcinoma. Sixteen laboratory isolates of adenovirus species 7, isolated in South Africa between 1975 and 1986, were characterized by restriction endonuclease analysis of their DNA genomes. Virus was propagated in human embryo fibroblast …
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Dysphagia progression-free survival in patients with locally advanced and metastatic oesophageal cancer receiving palliative radiation therapy
Purpose: In patients with advanced oesophageal carcinoma palliation of dysphagia is important to maintaining a reasonable quality of life. The primary aim of this study was to determine the dysphagia progression-free survival (DPFS) in patients with advanced oesophageal carcinoma treated with …
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Investigation of liquid sodium alginates as mucoadhesive bandages coating the oesophageal mucosa and protecting it from gastric reflux
Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD), is generally caused by excess gastric reflux back to the oesophagus where damage to the mucosa results in injury. GORD is a very common disease in western countries, more than a quarter of western people are suffering from this disease and there is a trend …
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Helicobacter pylori and its Association with Gastric and Oesophageal Carcinomas
… and the development of gastric and oesophageal carcinomas. Nested case-control studies were performed in the Malmö Preventive Medicine cohort consisting of 32,906 subjects. Tumour cases were identified by the Swedish National Cancer Registry. H. pylori infection was identified …