Archive for the ‘Colorectal Cancer’ Category
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Leading radiology experts from China, Korea, Japan and the UK convened as a steering committee group in London to draw up plans for the first ever pan-Asia CTC Congress. Congresses and workshops specialising in CTC already take place annually in Europe and in North America. The rising ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Feza Remzi, M.D. and Daniel Geisler, M.D., Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic and pioneers of a Single-Port Laparoscopic (SPL) method in the field of Colo-Rectal Surgery, recently performed the world's first colon resection (partial removal of the colon) entirely through a single incision in the navel. The conventional laparoscopic approach to ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
A new study finds significant underuse of colorectal cancer screening procedures among Medicare beneficiaries. The study, published in the January 15, 2008 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, show that only 25 percent of Medicare patients received recommended screening during the study period. .Colorectal cancer ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Only half of all Americans age 50 and over have had a colonoscopy, one of several common screening tests for colon cancer, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all people age 50 and ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced that the European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization for Vectibix(R) (panitumumab) as monotherapy for the treatment of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFr) expressing metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) with non-mutated (wild-type) KRAS genes after failure of standard chemotherapy regimens. Vectibix, a fully human ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Some minority populations in the United States are so isolated from mainstream cancer awareness efforts, they seem like separate nations unto themselves - a literal distinction for Navajo Indians. In the first-ever assessment of cancer awareness among members of the Navajo Nation, researchers at the University of Arizona Cancer Center ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Risk of developing colorectal cancer is known to differ across ethnic and racial groups, and now an analysis of 26 studies, involving over 25,000 participants shows that some of these disparities might be explained by distinct patterns of genetic inheritance. A team of researchers, led by investigators at the University ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
CT colonography (CTC), when used in elderly patients, can detect a high number of new and significant abnormalities outside the colon (including cirrhosis and tumors) and is well tolerated, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, United Kingdom (UK). "We decided to ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Low doses of freeze-dried grape powder inhibit genes linked to the development of sporadic colorectal cancer, University of California, Irvine cancer researchers found.The study suggests that a diet rich in grapes may help prevent the third most common form of cancer, one that kills more than a half a million ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Examining a specific number of lymph nodes after colon cancer surgery, a measurement that has been recommended as a quality indicator for hospitals, is not associated with length of patient survival, according to a study in the November 14 issue of JAMA. Several studies have suggested improved survival ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
In It's Half Past Midnight: A Poignant, Practical and Humorous Trip through My Colon, author Robert Cull invites readers on a vivid trip to self-discovery. Beginning with the author's emotional diagnosis, It's Half Past Midnight follows Cull's tumultuous battle with colon cancer. The author not only takes readers through ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
AngioDynamics (NASDAQ:ANGO) highlighted results from a 10-year study showing actual 3-year and 5-year survival rates of 20.2% and 18.4%, respectively, in 234 patients that had undergone radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of colorectal hepatic metastases. The patients in this study were not candidates for surgery and had failed chemotherapy prior to receiving ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Curcumin, the yellowish component of turmeric that gives curry its flavor, has long been noted for its potential anti-cancer properties. Researchers from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, report on an apparent improvement upon nature: two molecular analogues of curcumin that demonstrate even greater tumor suppressive properties. The team presented their ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Two recent commentaries appearing in the November issue of Nutrition Reviews find that the introduction of flour fortified with folic acid into common foods was followed by an increase in colon cancer diagnoses in the U.S. and Canada. The two new review articles address these recent findings and provide an ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
When a person learns they are suffering from cancer, the first question in their mind is always: "How much time do I have?" Unfortunately, this is a question to which the researchers have long been seeking an absolute answer. Tumor progression to local invasion and metastasis are the most relevant ...
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