A trial looking at a new treatment for 2 pre cancerous conditions affecting the food pipe (HALO)

This trial is looking at a treatment that uses heat from radio waves to destroy abnormal cells (radiofrequency ablation) lining the food pipe (oesophagus). It is open to people with Barrett’s oesophagus or abnormal changes to squamous cells in the food pipe (squamous dysplasia).

If you have Barrett’s oesophagus or squamous dysplasia, it is possible that these conditions could become either adenocarcinoma or squamous cell cancer of the food pipe. Doctors want to be able to treat these conditions before they turn into cancer.