Whats the Barretts esophagus condition?
Dr. Wallace: It’s characterized by a pink or salmon colored tissue in the lower esophagus. A slight bump of tissue represents the very earliest stage of cancer, what we call a stage 1 or T1 cancer that’s just developed in the first surface layer. This is what we can now remove through a technique called endoscopic mucosal resection. What is the endoscopic mucosal resection technique? Dr. Wallace: We use a special high definition endoscope called a narrow band imaging high definition endoscope. The blue light really allows us to see very, very clearly this early cancer in the lower part of the screen. It really highlights. We use a virtual biopsy instrument, a very small microscope. It’s less than 3 millimeters in size, just the size of a spaghetti noodle. We now have that microscope inside the esophagus and we can see the individual cells and we can see where the cancer cells are located. We can also look at the normal area. It really allows us to target our treatment to the areas that
Dr. Wallace: It’s characterized by a pink or salmon colored tissue in the lower esophagus. A slight bump of tissue represents the very earliest stage of cancer, what we call a stage 1 or T1 cancer that’s just developed in the first surface layer. This is what we can now remove through a technique called endoscopic mucosal resection. What is the endoscopic mucosal resection technique? Dr. Wallace: We use a special high definition endoscope called a narrow band imaging high definition endoscope. The blue light really allows us to see very, very clearly this early cancer in the lower part of the screen. It really highlights. We use a virtual biopsy instrument, a very small microscope. It’s less than 3 millimeters in size, just the size of a spaghetti noodle. We now have that microscope inside the esophagus and we can see the individual cells and we can see where the cancer cells are located. We can also look at the normal area. It really allows us to target our treatment to the areas that
