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...found myself last week in the examining room of Dr. Robert Meirowitz. Like many of his fellow gastroenterologists, Meirowitz has seen an upswing in patients since the journal article came out. Fortunately, he explains, GERD is usually not serious. Only about 5% of sufferers get Barrett's esophagus, and only 5% of those go on to develop cancer. However, as Dr. Joel Richter, head of gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic, points out, "The only way to be sure you don't have these conditions is to have an endoscopy...
That takes all of five minutes, and in two weeks Dr. Meirowitz will snake an endoscope--a flexible tube with a fiberoptic core--down my throat (not pleasant but, he assures me, not as awful as it sounds). If he sees Barrett's, he'll bring me back every year for another look and, if necessary, a biopsy. Under this sort of regimen, my chances of getting cancer will drop dramatically...
...Chairman, M. Morrill, Mildred Marcus; H. J. Freedman, Josephine Freedman; A. H. Ellis, Florence Levy; M. J. Koleman, Helen Koleman; E. J. Berman, Rose Cohen; H. Meirowitz, Anne Seidel; A. E. Sopers, Anne Herwitz; H. Hoffman, Rae Hoffman...
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