Perelman School of Medicine conducted a study of endoluminal therapy, an endoscopy-based treatment, on patients with Barrett's esophagus or in the early stages of cancer and found that neoplasia was eliminated in 95 percent of patients, according to a Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Journal article.
The retrospective cohort study was conducted with 166 patients and found that endoluminal therapy for patients with Barrett's esophagus with high grade dysplasia or early cancer was highly successful, but a third of patients experienced a reoccurrence of intestinal metaplasia.
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The retrospective cohort study was conducted with 166 patients and found that endoluminal therapy for patients with Barrett's esophagus with high grade dysplasia or early cancer was highly successful, but a third of patients experienced a reoccurrence of intestinal metaplasia.
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