from the stomach into the esophagus. The LES is a muscle at the junction of the esophagus and stomach that functions as the body’s natural barrier to reflux. The LES acts like a valve, allowing food ...

Less than one-quarter of oncologists surveyed indicated that every one of their patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancers received biomarker testing consistent with practice ...

Stomach or gastric cancer forms when cancer cells grow out of control in your stomach. It happens when abnormal cell growth meets your esophagus or the gastroesophageal junction. Doctors say more ...

in length and occurred near the cardioesophageal junction (Fig ... it could not be passed into the stomach, meeting resistance at about the mid-esophagus. Foreign-body forceps were employed ...