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, muscular tube that connects your throat to your stomach. It is at least 12 inches (30cm) long in adults. When you swallow food it is carried down the oesophagus to the stomach, and the walls of the oesophagus contract...
to digest food. The stomach is lined by tissue that is resistant to acid, but the oesophagus is not... again. You may also have a fine tube (a nasogastric (NG) tube) that passes down your nose and into your stomach, or small...
, but a tiny ultrasound probe is connected to the end of the endoscope tube and passed along the oesophagus... the tummy button (navel) and carefully inserts a thin, flexible fibre-optic tube (laparoscope...
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food is pushed. It connects the throat above with the stomach below. At the junction of the esophagus...
The digestive system is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube... 
through the mouth and down the throat examining the inside of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (first part...
The stomach is a sac-like organ located in the upper abdomen between the esophagus...
to your stomach. Oesophageal cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the UK, and it’s often caused by smoking...
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1. Ochre
A national cancer charity for people affected by oesophageal cancer.
last reviewed: 18.07.2007
2. Oesophagea
The information in the cancer of the gullet information centre is based on the Cancerbackup booklet, Understanding cancer of the gullet (oesophagus).
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