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Global bowel cancer rates on the rise

Scowcroft, science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said the findings highlighted how bowel cancer rates were driven by... Cancer Research...

Vitamin D helps improve survival from bowel and skin cancer

cancer." The second study [2] – funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institutes of Health – found that malignant melanoma p... Cancer Research UK Press...

Bowel cancer screening test 'may be less accurate in summer'

Woolnough, head of policy at Cancer Research UK, said: "While this study looks at the Italian bowel screening programme,... Cancer Research...

No link between coffee, fizzy drinks and bowel cancer, says large US study

Ebo, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: “This study adds to the evidence that coffee is unlikely to have an e... Cancer Research...

Clinical trial launched to test new treatment technique for bowel cancer

Cancer Research UK this week launches a new trial for patients with bowel cancer that has... trial – called FOXFIRE and funded by Cancer Research UK and by Sirtex Medical Ltd.– aims to recruit almost 500 patients in... Cancer Research UK Press...

Differences in the way stem cells divide provide clues about bowel cancer

a new study funded by the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research... scientists from the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow and The Netherlands. "This is a perfect example of the kind... Cancer Research...

‘Junk DNA’ could spotlight breast and bowel cancer

Cancer Research UK funded scientists have found that a group of rogue genetic messengers,... at the University of Nottingham supported by Cancer Research UK, said: “This study has generated new research tools to investigate the role ... Cancer Research UK Press...

Breath test could help to detect cancer

Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK, said: “It is important to say at the outset that this is a small study at a...

Cancer deaths fall, but prevention still lags behind

Spain, and colleagues. Public donations to cancer research funded by charitable organisations will fall, and governments as well as the...

Low-dose aspirin may reduce bowel cancer risk

to reduce the risk of bowel cancer. Yinka Ebo, Cancer Research UK's health information officer, said: "This new research suggests that... Cancer Research...

Abnormal body weight related to increased mortality in colon cancer patients

a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...

Serum marker offer alternative for colorectal cancer detection

testing, finds a study in Clinical Cancer Research... early detection of colorectal cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2011. doi:...

IARC coordinates new EU guidelines on colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis

Dr Christopher Wild, Director of IARC, the WHO cancer research organization. Read the whole article at ecancer.org Reference ...

Scientists identify new drug target for advanced bowel cancer

at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have discovered that an enzyme involved in the spread of breast cancer... research team, who were part-funded by Cancer Research UK, found that bowel tumour cells with high levels of the enzyme, called lysyl... Cancer Research...

Critical step towards DNA test to detect early bowel cancer

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered for the first time that DNA methylation patterns... credit: depositphotos.com Researchers from Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Research Institute analysed 261 tumour samples taken from... Cancer Research UK Press...

High levels of HDL cholesterol 'may cut colon cancer risk'

Ebo, senior health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that bowel cancer is more common in people who carry excess... Cancer Research...

Bowel cancer and diet: links with meat and fibre confirmed

report, released as part of World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research’s (WCRF/AICR) groundbreaking C... Cancer Research Fund Press...

Cancer screening rates lower among those with fatalistic attitudes

a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “In England, the screenings are free and the subsequent health t...

Aspirin 'should be recommended' to cut bowel cancer risk in people with inherited syndrome

disease - according to research partly funded by Cancer Research UK... of cancer." Professor Chris Paraskeva, Cancer Research UK's bowel cancer expert at the University of Bristol, said: "This is a really... Cancer Research...

Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer

Nunn, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: “When it comes to bowel cancer people can help stack the odds in t... Cancer Research Institute Press...

Noninvasive stool test for colorectal cancer unaffected by medications, lifestyle factors and other variables

and body mass and other patient characteristics. Cancer Research 2012. doi: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2012-3572 Ahlquist DA, Zou H, et al....

Bowel cancer risk calculator could help doctors diagnose the disease

Hiom, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK, said: “When bowel cancer is found at the earliest stage, there is an e...

Gene link to higher rates of bowel cancer in men

that can afflict both genders, according to a Cancer Research UK-funded study in Nature Genetics [1]. The finding may help explain why men... collaboration - led by The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), the University of Oxford and Edinburgh University – was searching for c... Cancer Research UK Press...

Studies unpick why bowel cancers become resistant to treatment

Bardelli and colleagues at the Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment in Candiolo looked at how resistance developed in... Cancer Research...

Bowel cancer patients diagnosed through screening more likely to survive

findings, based on north-east England, support Cancer Research UK’s calls to ensure the bowel screening programmes are as effective as...

World’s largest cancer and lifestyle database revealed

credit: shutterstock.com World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) will be... Cancer Research Fund Press... Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), World Cancer...

Colorectal cancer gene database helpful in furthering research

insight into the direction of further colorectal cancer research, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer...

Protein levels could predict if bowel cancer patients will benefit from Avastin

according to research published in Clinical Cancer Research... effect and acts as a brake on this growth. Cancer Research UK funded scientists at the University of Bristol looked at the effect Avastin... Cancer Research UK Press...

Bowel cancer 'chemo swap' shrinks tumours, making surgery safer and easier

coming back, according to results from a major Cancer Research UK-funded pilot study published this month in Lancet Oncology... that’s thanks to the work of organisations like Cancer Research UK who keep investing in these areas. “I have since become a granddad for t... Cancer Research UK Press...

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis

David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. She adds that the search has been complicated because genomic studies have...

Study finds no evidence to link work stress to cancer risk

Helga Groll, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "These findings add to the evidence that stress doesn't directly... Cancer Research...

CT scans are the best alternative to colonoscopy to investigate bowel cancer symptoms

Health Research Health Technology Assessment and Cancer Research UK, caution that guidelines are needed before this type of scan, also called... Cancer Research UK Press...

Breast cancer gene provides vital clue to bowel cancer drug resistance

extended to these patients.” Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK’s senior science information manager, said: “This research reminds us that c...

Bowel cancers reshuffle their genetic pack to cheat treatment

credit: depositphotos.com Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that this genetic ‘card trick’ can... Cancer Research UK Press...

Visceral fat causally linked to intestinal cancer

[1], a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...

New study strengthens processed meat dangers

Rachel Thompson, Deputy Head of Science at World Cancer Research Fund, said: “This research from EPIC adds to the body of scientific evidence h... disease, cancer, early deaths, World Cancer Research...

Obesity, physical inactivity linked with risk for certain molecular subtype of colorectal cancer

that same cancer, according to data published in Cancer Research [1], a journal of the American Association for Cancer... risk associated with β-catenin (CTNNB1) status. Cancer Research 2013. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-2276 Nurses' Health Study Health...

Family history of bowel cancer increases odds of survival

credit: depositphotos.com Cancer Research UK scientists, based at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with the... Cancer Research UK Press...

New type of bowel cancer discovered

credit: depositphotos.com Researchers from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge and the Netherlands... Cancer Research UK Press...

Women smokers may have greater risk for colon cancer than men

a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...

Colorectal cancer survivors face increased risk of subsequent cancers of different types

the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and her colleagues looked to see whether that increased...

IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'

40 countries, describing multiple aspects of cancer research and control...

Healthy lifestyle choices add up to cut bowel cancer risk

Osgun, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that there are lots of things you can do to reduce the risk... Cancer Research...

Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC

have serious negative consequences from both cancer research and public health perspectives. IARC experts point to a serious...

Cancer fear and discomforting thoughts impact colorectal cancer screening uptake

[1], a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research... said Charlotte Vrinten, a researcher at the Cancer Research U.K. Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London. “For...

Scientists discover why bowel cancer sometimes outsmarts treatment

credit: depositphotos.com Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that bowel cancer may not be restricted to... Cancer Research UK Press...

A healthy lifestyle before diagnosis may improve bowel cancer survival

Stansfeld, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: “It’s hard to know for sure whether the lifestyle choices people mad... Cancer Research...

Scientists uncover four different types of bowel cancer

for each type. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, alongside colleagues at research institutes in the US and Europe,... of Cancer Research (ICR) Press...

New review concludes evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong

undertaken in the last 10 years by the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, the International Agency for...

Excess weight linked to 8 more cancer types

the United States. In 2002, the same group of cancer researchers found sufficient evidence linking excess weight to higher risks of cancers...

Landmark study gives clearest picture of genetic causes of bowel cancer

team led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, uncovered five new potential genes which, when mutated, appeared to... of Cancer Research (ICR) Press...

New research confirms obesity link to 11 cancers

research funded by the World Cancer Research Fund International, published in the British Medical Journal, concluded that...

Lifestyle choices condition colon and rectal cancer risk more than genetics

of the Colorectal Cancer research group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Víctor ...

Where body fat is carried can predict cancer risk

and pancreatic (Note 2). Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK’s head of health information, said: “This study further highlights that how...

Preventing colorectal cancer: New report updates dietary and activity recommendations

credit: depositphotos.com The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) is an international network of cancer charities that funds...

Colorectal cancer: Combined analysis enhances risk prediction

to predict risk. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that a combination of family... epidemiological case-control study of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). DACHS is an abbreviation for “Darmkrebs: Chancen der...

Links between red meat and distal colon cancer

They were recruited and surveyed by the World Cancer Research fund between 1995 and 1998 and were tracked for an average of 17 years. In...