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In patients with early rectal cancer (ERC), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) appears safer and is associated with shorter hospital stay than transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM), results of a recent study have shown.

Swallowing more air appears to induce both dyspepsia and refractoriness to typical symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) to proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy, suggests a study.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) shows an independent relationship with the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with such association being stronger in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) than those with ulcerative colitis (UC), reveals a study.

Treatment with ripretinib provides a prolonged clinical and radiological benefit in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) within the expanded access program (EAP) in the UK, as shown in a study presented at the ESMO Sarcoma and Rare Cancers Congress 2023 in Lugano, Switzerland.

Patients with rectal cancer who are monitored using a watch-and-wait approach are more likely to have a good quality of life, whereas those who undergo surgery appear to experience deterioration in quality of life and functional outcome, as reported in a study.