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• Thousands of cancer deaths yearly from excess body fat

  
  www.healthycare.in — Authority: 134
  Estimates show that thousands of cancer deaths occur yearly from excess body fat. Cancer is preventable with effective weight management. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), over 100,000 cancer deaths likely occur each year from obesity. The AICR has launched a public campaign to raise ...
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• Amgens Vectibix is dead in colorectal cancer

  
  Pharma Strategy Blog — Authority: 516
  The stunning press release from Amgen today announcing that Vectibix did not meet statistical significance for overall survival (OS) in the 1st line colorectal cancer (CRC) trial with patients who had wild type KRAS mutations was a total shock after it had previously met its primary endpoint of progression free ...
  5 days ago

• Colonoscopy early in morning better for colon cancer screening

  
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  UCLA.edu - The effectiveness of colonoscopy for colon cancer screening may depend on the time of day it is performed. According to a new UCLA study, early-morning colonoscopies yielded more polyps per patient than later screenings, and fewer polyps were found hour by hour as the day progressed.The findings, published ...
  5 days ago

• No Need to Do Surgery Immediately for Patients with Advanced Colon Cancer

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 127
  Written by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD . A study from Memorial Sloan Kettering recently showed that patients who have stage IV disease, which means spread to other organs, don’t need to undergo surgery immediately. If the tumor does not cause problems such as obstruction or bleeding, patients appear to do better to ...
  5 days ago

• Colon Cancer and Alcohol

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 127
  Written by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD . For years we have known that alcohol consumption is one of the risk factors in developing colon cancer particular in women. This week an interesting article was published by Dr. Christopher Forsyth from Rush University Medical Center suggesting that if you have colon cancer and ...
  1 week ago

• Gastrocor(R) Introduces New FISH Test For Colorectal Cancer Detection

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  GastroFISH™ is the first tissue-based fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) test for the detection of chromosomal anomalies associated with colon cancer. "We are excited to be the first laboratory to offer GastroFISH for the colon. Using current histological techniques, identifying adenomas with a high risk ...
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• 1 disease, not 1 demographic

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  The Asian continent has nearly four billion people living in 47 different countries, and each of these groups has their own unique set of health issues.
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• Ten Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Cancer Risk

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 546
  Cancer is a disease that does not discriminate. Anyone can get cancer , and unfortunately, one of the single factors contributing to the disease is aging. But don’t get discouraged. There are ways to reduce your cancer risk that you can control. read more
  1 week ago

• Liver-Limited Colon Cancer

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 127
  Written by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD . One of the questions I often get is if colon cancer has traveled to the liver is it then liver cancer or is it still colon cancer. The answer is very easy. It is still colon cancer but the consequences of it being in the liver or any other organ are getting more and more ...
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• High Definition Colonoscopy Detects More Polyps

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  High-definition (HD) colonoscopy is much more sensitive than standard colonoscopy in finding polyps that could morph into cancer, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida.
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• Unsedated Colonoscopy For Colorectal Cancer Screening Well Accepted By Patients

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Researchers from Taiwan report in a new study that unsedated colonoscopy for primary colorectal cancer screening is well accepted in a majority of patients. Sedation is typically used for colonoscopy to make the patient feel comfortable during the procedure.
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• New Bowel Prep Approaches Evaluated By Researchers

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  While there is little doubt concerning the effectiveness of colonoscopy procedures to detect colon cancer, a new study presented at the American College of Gastroenterologys 74th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego places new emphasis on the importance of adequate bowel preparation prior to procedure.
  2 weeks ago

• Cellular Pathway By Which Alcohol May Promote Cancer Progression Identified By Scientists

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Although alcohol consumption has been linked to colon and breast cancer, exactly how this occurs remains unclear. A new study has found that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) - which is essential for numerous developmental processes - may also be a cellular pathway by which alcohol-induced cancer cells ...
  2 weeks ago

• More and More Complex Decisions but Better and Better Outcomes

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 127
  Written by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD . Colon cancer has undergone significant changes and has seen increasing treatment options. With more and more drugs available and approved for colon cancer we are facing difficult decisions deciding what is the right treatment at the right time. For patients with newly diagnosed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Technologies To Advance Diagnosis By Colonoscopy

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Recent advances in colonoscopic technology are featured in a number of studies presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology this week. In this research some technologies fare better than others at improving detection of potentially pre-cancerous growths in the colon known as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Race And Gender Can Influence Risk Of Colorectal Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  African Americans are at significantly higher risk of developing colorectal cancer, and being diagnosed with the disease at a later stage, than other ethnic groups. Thats the finding of a paper being presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in San Diego. Robert Wong, M.D.
  2 weeks ago

• Colorectal Cancer Treatment Pushed To New Standard

  
  www.healthycare.in — Authority: 134
  In a review article published this month in The Oncologist, UNC’s Dr. Richard M. Goldberg and a team of colleagues catalogue how the data collected in a single large comparative clinical trial testing combination chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer has been used not only to benefit the patients that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blacks at Greater Risk for Colorectal Cancer

  
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  MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that blacks are at much higher risk of developing colorectal cancer than other groups of people, and they are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of the disease. read more
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• New Data on CRYSTAL

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 127
  Written by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD . Sorry but today I am also getting into new and very difficult data to discuss but wanted to give it a shot since you may surf the Net and come across data which are shown to be negative leading to some stress if you are on similar or same therapy. I attended the European Meeting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colorectal Cancer News in Brief: October 23

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 127
  Written by Kate Murphy . Briefly: Health care providers are less likely to recommend colorectal cancer screening to their patients with a high school education or less.  IV ibuprofen enhances morphine to control post-operative pain, reducing pain and letting patients use less morphine. Superspreaders with ...
  2 weeks ago

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