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Combining Upper-Lower GI Screening Feasible, Effective

BERLIN — Pairing a screening or surveillance colonoscopy with a same-day esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) proved feasible and yielded clinically relevant upper gastrointestinal (GI) findings, ...
Cancer Network

Reassessing Biomarkers: Guiding Second-Line Therapy in Upper GI Cancer

Experts discuss how biomarker testing results should be reassessed or expanded upon disease progression and how they guide the selection of second-line therapies or clinical trial enrollment. How ...

Rutika Mehta, MD, MPH, Joins NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center to Expand Upper GI Cancer Care and Research

Rutika Mehta, MD, MPH, a nationally recognized gastrointestinal (GI) medical oncologist, has joined NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center as director of upper GI medical oncology, further ...
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Participation Barriers in Risk-Stratified Endoscopic Screening for Upper GI Cancer: A Mixed-Methods Study

Outcomes of Adults Age 40 Years and Older With Newly Diagnosed ALL: A Multicenter Registry Analysis From the Hematology Cancer Consortium This sequential mixed-methods study was conducted in a ...
Medscape

Blood Detection Capsule Helpful in Suspected Upper GI Bleeding

SAN DIEGO — A real-time, blood-sensing capsule (PillSense) is a safe and effective diagnostic tool for patients with suspected upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding that can aid patient triage, reduce ...
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Improving evidence-based treatment selection and patient-centered care in upper GI cancers: A Project ECHO initiative.

Phase II trial of transarterial chemoembolization followed by sintilimab (anti-PD-1), oxaliplatin, and S-1 combined with either trastuzumab (HER-2 positive) or apatinib (HER-2 negative) as first-line ...