You have a smaller stomach afterwards. The valve (cardiac sphincter) between your oesophagus and stomach will still be there. This operation is for when the cancer is in the middle of the stomach. The ...

Oesophageal cancer is a malignancy of the oesophagus or food pipe . It is a rare malignancy. Nearly all oesophageal cancer are squamous cell carcinomas (cancer arising from the flat cells of ...

The medical name for the throat is the pharynx. The easiest way to think of this is as a passage, that makes sure food and drink go down the oesophagus. And air goes up and down the trachea. There are ...