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- HCUK | Heartburn Cancer UK | Heartburn | Barrett's | Cancer | Heartburn Cancer UK
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- HCUK is a national charity having amalgamated with the McCord Fund, which was founded in memory of Michael McCord who died from oesophageal cancer in 2002. Michael’s death was preventable had he been aware of the danger of long-term persistent heartburn and sought appropriate investigation. He is one of thousands who die each year unnecessarily. Cancer of the oesophagus is a rapidly increasing cancer of great concern in the UK and is now the fifth greatest cancer killer. Despite the best modern treatments survival from oesophageal cancer is appalling. This is mainly due to a diagnosis being made when the condition is too advanced to be treated as the preceding symptoms are few and on the whole ignored. Long- term persistent heartburn is a significant symptom of a type of oesophageal cancer called adenocarcinoma and the pre-cancerous condition known as Barrett’s Oesophagus. Heartburn affects 1 in 10 of us and is dismissed as being a harmless problem. It is estimated that in the ...
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