April is Esophageal Cancer awareness month. Dr. Parikh interviews fellow gastroenterologist, Dr. George Sun. They discuss the epidemiology, risk factors, and symptoms of esophageal cancer before briefly providing an overview of treatment modalities. This episode is brought to you by Castle Biosciences, maker of TissueCypher, a test designed to predict the risk of esophageal cancer in patients with Barrett’s esophagus.

As the Gut Doctor podcast continues to raise awareness for colorectal cancer, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Paul Limburg, MD, who is a gastroenterologist and chief medical officer for Exact Sciences. They discuss colon cancer prevalence, barriers to CRC screening, and the role of stool based testing such as Cologuard.

This episode is sponsored by Exact Sciences whose purpose is to help eradicate cancer by preventing it, detecting it earlier, and guiding personalized treatment. Exact Sciences is the maker of the Cologuard® test, a stool-based screening test for average risk adults ages 45 and over.

As we continue to raise colon cancer awareness in the month of March, in this GI 101 episode, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Larry Kogan to discuss the basics of a colonoscopy. What is a colonoscopy? How do we do it? Why do we do it? Dr. Kogan is a third year gastroenterology fellow at Yale University. The GI 101 series is a set of episodes focused on interviewing physicians in training to get their perspective on bread and butter GI topics.