Scary!-----Heartburn Gave My Dad Cancer. What About the Rest of Us?

Heartburn Gave My Dad Cancer. What About the Rest of Us?

Heartburn Gave My Dad Cancer. What About the Rest of Us?

Esophageal cancer related to chronic acid reflux is among the fastest-growing cancers in the U.S. Diet and weight are likely culprits, but what else?

"...As I approach the age at which my father died, I fear the thing that got him will get me. 
That’s because I, too, suffer from acid reflux — and so do many other Americans.
...he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. 

As a last-ditch effort, my father enrolled in a Phase I clinical trial...
...Three months later, he was dead. He was 62.

...The doctors attributed his cancer — adenocarcinoma, which usually occurs in the lower portion of the esophagus — to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) — basically, chronic heartburn. but starting in 1997, American esophageal cancer patients, on average, became much more likely to be diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, which is associated with GERD. 
In fact, according to the National Cancer Institute, esophageal adenocarcinoma is one of the fastest-growing cancers in the country. 
In 1973, just 3 people in a million had adenocarcinoma in the U.S. 
In 2014, that rate was 26 people per million, representing an increase of more than 600 percent..."
Read all!!