Running to Beat Bile Duct Cancer
Join the race against cholangiocarcinoma – bile duct cancer – at this year’s Broad Street Run and support leading-edge research at Jefferson.
Archive | Patient Stories
To Help Others, Velour Had to Help Herself
She lost 210 pounds as well as her diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, bad back and more.
Fertility in Women with Celiac Disease
After 23 physicians, three miscarriages and eight years of unexplained symptoms, Alice Bast learns she has celiac disease and establishes a nonprofit organization to educate others.
Treating Precancerous Cells in Barrett’s Esophagus Without Surgery
For 40 years John Gentzler, 66, dealt with his chronic acid reflux the way most people deal with a heartburn flare-up, antacids. “I lived on Rolaids,” says the 66-year-old Gloucester County, N.J. resident. “I desperately needed some kind of relief from this constant burning pain in my windpipe and chest.” But the south Jersey man, a more »
Jefferson Patient Gets Relief from Barrett’s Esophagus
For 40 years, Vietnam War veteran and three-time Purple Heart recipient John Gentzler didn’t realize that his acid reflux was a symptom of a bigger problem.