As a result, victims with cancer of the esophagus had no lobby generating large research and development budgets aimed at producing a cure.

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Doctors can sometimes see the cancer coming years earlier when acid reflux causes cells in the esophagus to mutate to become more like stomach tissue, a condition called Barrett's esophagus.

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