Overview
- In the Season 8 trailer released Sept. 17, Kim Kardashian says “I have something called esophagitis” and is shown in a hospital gown being wheeled toward a procedure.
- The trailer links the diagnosis to her late father Robert Kardashian’s 2003 death from esophageal cancer and shows family members reacting emotionally.
- Medical sources quoted in coverage stress that esophagitis is inflammation of the esophagus, not cancer, but note that long‑term untreated inflammation can sometimes lead to Barrett’s esophagus, which carries a small increased cancer risk.
- The preview does not state what caused Kim’s esophagitis, how severe it is, or what treatment she received, and journalists say fuller clinical details are likely to appear when the season debuts on October 8.
- The family’s past advocacy for esophageal health is central context here, since Kim and relatives helped open the UCLA Robert G. Kardashian Center for Esophageal Health in 2019 and have promoted screening and treatment efforts since Robert Kardashian’s death.