Advances in Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy

Gastrointestinal Oncology

Digestive cancers can have wide-ranging effects on our nutritional status, health and quality of life. It shows the symptoms of swelling, internal bleeding, acute pains, inability to digest, difficulty in swallowing or chronic constipation or acute diarrhea.

The diagnosis often requires endoscopy, pursued by biopsy of suspicious tissue and the treatment depends on the location of the tumor, as well as the type of cancer cell and whether it has invaded other tissues or spread elsewhere, these factors also determine the prognosis. Esophageal cancer is the sixth-most-common cancer in the world, and its incidence is increasing day by day.