Nasogastric Tube (NG): An NG tube passes through the nose, down the throat and esophagus and ends in the stomach. Sometimes the doctor will decide that it’s safer to give nutrition past the stomach, ...

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Impact of radiotherapy duration on outcomes in patients with esophageal cancer treated with definitive concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy on RTOG trials 8501 and 9405. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

October 12, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Diverting jejunostomy is an effective surgical procedure in the treatment of severe necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in neonates, according to research ...

In oncological patients with upper gastrointestinal tract tumours, dysphagia and cachexy necessitate gastrostomy or jejunostomy as the only options of enteral access for long-term feeding. In this ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Gastro-Jejunostomy under Local Anesthesia in the Two-Stage Operation in Gastric Surgery ...

Concordance between independent and investigator assessment of disease-free survival (DFS) in the APACT trial. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...

Why this is important:- People who have had surgery for oesophago-gastric cancer have nutritional difficulties as a result of problems eating, ongoing symptoms, and side-effects related to the surgery ...