Archive for the ‘Colorectal Cancer’ Category
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Flat,non-polyploid colorectal neoplasms (NP-CRNs) are difficult to detect,but when examined, they appear to be common. Additionally they may havea stronger association with colorectal cancer than polyps, which aremore routinely observed in examination, according to a study publishedon March 5, 2008 in JAMA Colorectal cancer, sometimessimply called colon cancer, encompasses cancerous ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
For the first time, more than half of the U.S. population is now covered by state laws that require insurance providers to cover the cost of colon cancer screening tests, according to a new report card issued by a coalition of 11 leading public health groups. The enactment ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
A study released this week from researchers at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System in California shows that non-polypoid colorectal neoplasms or flat colon lesions, are more common in Americans than previously thought and may have a greater association with cancer compared to polypoid neoplasms or the more commonly ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
A new guideline on colorectal cancer screening just released by an expert group representing a broad spectrum of health care organizations, including the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), offers recommendations for various alternatives for colorectal cancer detection ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
New consensus colorectal cancer guidelines state for the first time that the primary goal of colorectal cancer screening is cancer prevention. Previous guidelines have given equal weight to tests for detecting cancer and preventing cancer. By removing polyps from the large bowel, colonoscopy is the only screening test that also ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Aetna has announced that, based on input from the AGA Institute and discussions with a number of gastroenterologists, it will not implement Clinical Policy Bulletin 0740 on April 1, 2008, as planned. This policy would have restricted the use of an anesthesia professional in standard upper or lower endoscopic procedures, ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
New evidence suggests screening for colorectal cancer, which is now recommended to begin at age 50 for most people, should start five to 10 years earlier for individuals with a significant lifetime exposure to tobacco smoke, a University of Rochester Medical Center study said.An examination of 3,450 cases found that ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Cancer research pioneer Michael G. Hanna Jr. Ph.D., also Vaccinogen, Inc.'s Founder, Chairman and CEO has acquired the rights to OncoVAX(R), a vaccine with the potential to prevent colon cancer from recurring in many patients. "This agreement represents a major step forward in defeating cancer by ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Australia's National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded its largest grant for 2009 to the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) in Melbourne.This grant will allow the LICR to bring together 18 key investigators from five Melbourne institutions to develop new ways of detecting and treating cancers of ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Individuals with the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis are at increased risk of developing colon cancer. New data generated by Naofumi Mukaida and colleagues at Kanazawa University, Japan, identified a central role for the soluble factor TNF-alpha in the development of colon cancer in mice in which inflammation of the ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
The use of regular, long-term aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduces the risk associated with colorectal cancer, according to a study published in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. However, the use of aspirin for chemoprevention of colorectal cancer may require using the drug ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Patients who have had a colonoscopy can play a life-saving role by encouraging other patients to follow through with their own colorectal cancer screenings, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. These peer coaches can provide important information to combat myths and fears that serve ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
A married couple who migrated from England to America around 1630, at the same time as the Pilgrim Fathers, have been traced as the ancestors of hundreds of Americans who have inherited a gene that predisposes them to a type of hereditary colon cancer.This is the finding of a study ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
An in vitro culture model of human colon cancer was created at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), in order to reproduce the gene regulation that is expressed in these cancer cells during their growth in the liver of patients. This in vitro culture model provides a simple tool ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Two recently released studies confirm an alarming reality, that a majority of Americans who should be getting screened for colorectal cancer are not. Men and women over the age of 50 should be screened for colorectal cancer, but according to a study in the journal Cancer, researchers found that among ...
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