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Clinical trial launched to test new treatment technique for bowel cancer

technique is more effective than standard chemotherapy... will combine this new treatment with standard chemotherapy in patients recently diagnosed with bowel cancer that has spread to the...

Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes

and after being treated with post-surgical chemotherapy did not reduce the risk of the cancer returning or their dying from it,...

Survival benefit of cetuximab for metastatic colorectal cancer

improvement of 3.5 months compared with standard chemotherapy − updated analysis from pivotal CRYSTAL trial published in the Journal of C... the addition of Erbitux (cetuximab) to standard chemotherapy (FOLFIRI) in patients with KRAS wild-type disease resulted in a significant...

Phase 2 drug trial offers hope to patients with advanced colorectal cancer

had already undergone several rounds of standard chemotherapy, to no effect, or were intolerant of standard drug treatments (which include...

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

some bowel cancer patients six weeks of chemotherapy before surgery can significantly shrink their tumour, making it easier to... credit: shutterstock.com Giving chemotherapy before surgery is already standard practice for several other cancers of the... cancer, colorectal cancer, chemotherapy, surgery,...