Colon & Colorectal Cancer news
Balancing oxaliplatin dose with neurological side effects in metastatic colon cancer
The drug oxaliplatin is a major reason the prognosis for metastatic colon cancer has gone from an expected…
Cocoa could prevent intestinal pathologies such as colon cancer
A new study on living animals has shown for the first time that eating cocoa (the raw material…
Roche’s Avastin helps colorectal cancer patients
Patients with advanced colorectal cancer who received Roche’s Avastin live longer when they also receive the drug as…
Cocoa could prevent intestinal pathologies such as colon cancer
A new study on living animals has shown for the first time that eating cocoa (the raw material…
Compounds in mate tea induce death in colon cancer cells
Could preventing colon cancer be as simple as developing a taste for yerba mate tea? In a recent…
Identified a cause of resistance to colon cancer treatment
Doctors and researchers of Hospital del Mar and its research institute, the IMIM, have lead a study describing…
Study examines quality of colonoscopy reporting and performance
Researchers in the Netherlands assessed the quality of colonoscopy reporting in daily clinical practice and evaluated the quality…
Study showed oxaliplatin improved colon cancer patient survival
Stage III colon cancer patients in the general population who receive adjuvant treatment for the disease have an…
Drug improves survival of colorectal cancer patients, trial results show
An investigational drug called regorafenib slowed the progression of tumors and lengthened the lives of patients with metastatic…
Researchers discover genes involved in colorectal cancer
A jumping gene with the fairy tale name “Sleeping Beauty” has helped to unlock vital clues for researchers…
Researchers Find Possible Link Between Bacterium and Colon Cancer
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute have found strikingly high levels of a bacterium in…
Does sex matter in colon cancer screening?
Middle-aged men are twice as likely as women to end up with a cancer diagnosis after colonoscopy, according…
Protein found in heart may be target for colon cancer therapies
A protein critical in heart development may also play a part in colon cancer progression.
Research…
Folate tied to lower colon cancer risk
People who eat plenty of folate had a lower risk of colon and rectal cancers in a new…
Vitamin D levels tied to colon cancer risk
A new analysis of earlier research finds that both higher vitamin D intake and higher blood levels of…
Program Identifies Families at High Risk for Colorectal Cancer
UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a new lifesaving genetic screening program for families at high risk of…
UT Southwestern program identifies families at high risk for colorectal cancer
UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a new lifesaving genetic screening program for families at high risk of…
MRI predicts survival in locally advanced rectal cancer
A new study has shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used to evaluate responses to pre-surgery (neo-adjuvant) chemotherapy…
Glaxo HPV vaccine protects women from anal cancer: study
A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer offered strong protection against anal cancer in a large study of women…
Confirmation that vitamin D acts as a protective agent against the advance of colon cancer
The indication that vitamin D and its derivatives have a protective effect against various types of cancer is…
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