A man discovered that he has stage four cancer, and an estimated 12 months to live, all because he struggled to eat a bacon and sausage sandwich.

it is called esophageal cancer or cancer of the esophagus. A cancerous tumor can develop at any point along the esophagus.

Prof. Gaofeng Liang from Clinical Medical College and Henan Key Laboratory of Microbiome and Esophageal Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Henan University of Science and Technology Disclaimer ...

That's when doctors discover a tumor that has grown into the walls of the esophagus, and likely beyond. "At that point," Kahn said, "it's incurable." This is why only about 20% of Americans with ...

First, esophageal cancers are relatively uncommon in the United States, and thus many clinicians will not have experience treating individuals with these tumors with the same frequency as they do ...