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Colorectal cancer diagnosis
Colorectal cancer... Colorectal cancer... examination methods are used in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer (e.g. colonoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, abdominal CT scan, magnetic resonance...
Colorectal cancer treatment
Colorectal cancer... Colorectal cancer... of all, it is important to understand that colorectal cancer is a treatable disease! Therefore, there is no need to despair, no matter how...
Board of Colorectal Cancer Screening
of Colorectal Cancer... of Colorectal Cancer... of Colorectal Cancer... Board of Colorectal Cancer Screening at the Czech Gastroenterological Society: ensures the...
Czech National Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme
National Colorectal Cancer Screening...
Colorectal cancer: epidemiology and screening results
Colorectal cancer: epidemiology and screening... Colorectal cancer: epidemiology and screening... the website www.svod.cz [2]. Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates Colorectal cancer (CRC)...
Colorectal cancer: introduction
Colorectal cancer:... Colorectal cancer... Colorectal cancer:... is colorectal cancer? There are several types of large bowel cancer and they are named after the...
Colorectal cancer prevention and risk factors
Colorectal cancer prevention and risk... Colorectal cancer prevention and risk... occurrence of colorectal cancer can be largely prevented by primary and secondary prevention. Read more in the...
Publications
list of selected publications referring to colorectal cancer screening programme in the Czech Republic shows that Czech cancer screening...
Screening process
and women aged over 50 years are eligible for colorectal cancer screening in the Czech Republic. Those individuals who meet the criteria of...
Colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer... Colorectal cancer... prevention of colorectal cancer in the Czech Republic currently consists in two types of physical examination:...
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Colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer... cancer screening, breast cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer screening consists in regular faecal occult... colorectal cancer screening, Czech Republic, accredited screening...
Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes
citizens are invited to participate in colorectal cancer screening (men and women), as well as breast cancer screening and cervical... and breast cancer in women, and screening for colorectal cancer in men and women. Screening programme Target... cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, cancer...
Leading colorectal cancer patient organisation calls on EU countries to improve poor standards of care
colorectal cancer patient organisation calls on EU countries to improve poor standards of... to implement existing EU recommendations on colorectal cancer screening following a new report published today that shows the disease to be... Director of Europacolon said: “For too long colorectal cancer has been the poor relation in cancer screening and management. It causes over... colorectal cancer, bowel cancer, colorectal cancer screening, cancer...
Global bowel cancer rates on the rise
M, Jemal A, Ward E. International trends in colorectal cancer incidence rates. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2009. doi:...
Nine in ten survive early stage bowel cancer
issues." Notes In the Czech Republic, colorectal cancer screening has been available since January 2009 to all people aged 50 years... cancer, colorectal cancer...
Vitamin D helps improve survival from bowel and skin cancer
"Our study shows that levels of vitamin D after colorectal cancer diagnosis may be important for survival. We are now planning further research...
Bowel cancer screening test 'may be less accurate in summer'
of immunochemical faecal occult blood test for colorectal cancer screening: observational study from the Florence district. Gut 2010. doi:... cancer, colorectal cancer screening, immunological faecal occult blood test...
Low-dose aspirin may reduce bowel cancer risk
of aspirin and NSAIDs on risk and survival from colorectal cancer. Gut 2010. doi:...
Ubiquitin D as a novel marker for colorectal cancer prognosis
D as a novel marker for colorectal cancer... serve as a new prognostic factor for forecasting colorectal cancer progression and disease recurrence, according to research first published in...
Type 2 diabetes and insulin use are associated with colorectal cancer in men
2 diabetes and insulin use are associated with colorectal cancer in... association between type 2 diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer (CRC) among men, but not women, according to a new study in Gastroenterology,... supports an association of type 2 diabetes with colorectal cancer incidence among men, our results also suggest that insulin use is associated...
Serum marker offer alternative for colorectal cancer detection
marker offer alternative for colorectal cancer... combination of six serum markers to detect colorectal cancer (CRC) was found to be comparable to the performance of fecal immunochemical... of serum markers for the early detection of colorectal cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2011. doi:... immunological faecal occult blood test (iFOBT), colorectal cancer...
IARC coordinates new EU guidelines on colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis
coordinates new EU guidelines on colorectal cancer screening and... the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Colorectal Cancer Screening and Diagnosis is being released at midday today, on the eve of the... European guidelines for quality assurance in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis, 1st Edition. Luxembourg: Office for Official... cancer, guidelines on colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis, European Commission, International Agency for...
World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers
close to 610,000 males and females died from colorectal cancer [1]. "Physical activity has a strong role to play in reducing the incidence...
Scientists identify new drug target for advanced bowel cancer
in SRC-dependent proliferation and metastasis of colorectal cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2011. doi:...
High levels of HDL cholesterol 'may cut colon cancer risk'
Blood lipid and lipoprotein concentrations and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Gut...
Survival benefit of cetuximab for metastatic colorectal cancer
benefit of cetuximab for metastatic colorectal cancer... KRAS mutation status in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), and found that the addition of Erbitux (cetuximab) to standard...
Sequencing of colorectal tumors
sequencing of colorectal cancer tumors is reported this week in Nature Genetics. Colorectal cancer is one of... report whole-genome sequencing of primary colorectal cancer tumors and matched non-cancerous tissue controls from nine patients. They...
Cancer screening rates lower among those with fatalistic attitudes
if health care is free, colorectal cancer screening rates among those without financial means are still low, and results... persist. Researchers tested rates of colorectal cancer screening in England. Negative attitudes may be combated with...
Aspirin 'should be recommended' to cut bowel cancer risk in people with inherited syndrome
aspirin on cancer risk in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer: an analysis from the CAPP2 randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 2012. doi:... hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), Lynch syndrome, bowel...
Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer
al. (2011). Associations between deprivation and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in Scotland NCRI conference 2011... status, bowel cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality...
Launch of the Global Colon Cancer Alliance (GCCA)
the issues and provide information surrounding colorectal cancer to clinicians, patients and caregivers across the... establishing advocacy groups and creating a wide colorectal cancer advocacy community. Through the Global Colon Cancer Alliance, we can now unite...
Colonoscopy prevents deaths from colon cancer
removing polyps by colonoscopy not only prevents colorectal cancer from developing, but also prevents deaths from the disease. Patients in the... showed that removal of polyps prevented colorectal cancer but it was not known whether the cancers prevented were potentially... colon cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality rates, adenomatous...
Noninvasive stool test for colorectal cancer unaffected by medications, lifestyle factors and other variables
stool test for colorectal cancer unaffected by medications, lifestyle factors and other... on an investigational DNA methylation test for colorectal cancer demonstrated that the only clinical variable that influenced test results was... on reducing both the mortality and incidence of colorectal cancer,” Ahlquist said. The researchers examined common patient variables, i... colorectal cancer, methylation markers, stool...
Bowel cancer risk calculator could help doctors diagnose the disease
who are at increased risk of having undetected colorectal cancer so that they could be sent for referral or further tests. The study is the...
Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients
activity, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality...
Gene link to higher rates of bowel cancer in men
near CDKN1A, POLD3 and SHROOM2 influences colorectal cancer risk. Nature Genetics 2012. doi:... colorectal cancer, genetic...
Studies unpick why bowel cancers become resistant to treatment
and acquired resistance to anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer. Nature 2012. doi: 10.1038/nature11156 Diaz LA, Williams RT et al. The...
Bowel cancer patients diagnosed through screening more likely to survive
test swiftly. Using data from the Northern Colorectal Cancer Audit Group in north-east England, researchers looked at more than 1,300 bowel...
TCGA study shows colon and rectal tumours constitute a single type of cancer
the recurrent genetic errors that contribute to colorectal cancer. The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National... Cancer Genome Atlas, colorectal cancer, genome...
Phase 2 drug trial offers hope to patients with advanced colorectal cancer
drug trial offers hope to patients with advanced colorectal cancer... could offer hope to patients with advanced colorectal cancer who were intolerant of or did not respond to standard treatments, according to... in Japan with inoperable, metastatic (spreading) colorectal cancer. The patients had already undergone several rounds of standard... colorectal cancer, survival...
Colorectal cancer gene database helpful in furthering research
Colorectal cancer gene database helpful in furthering... which gathers all genetic association studies on colorectal cancer, allows for researchers to accurately interpret the risk factors of the... 950,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed each year. The risk of developing the disease also increases... colorectal cancer, gene...
Increased use of colonoscopy screening could explain decrease in colorectal cancer rates
colonoscopy screening could explain decrease in colorectal cancer... of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening could explain a significant decrease in the cancer's incidence over... colonoscopy is now the most common colorectal cancer screening method, there has been conflicting evidence as to its effectiveness... colorectal cancer screening, colorectal...
Protein levels could predict if bowel cancer patients will benefit from Avastin
and progression-free survival in metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with bevacizumab. Clinical Cancer Research 2012. doi:... cancer, colorectal cancer, bevacizumab,...
Bowel cancer 'chemo swap' shrinks tumours, making surgery safer and easier
cancer, colorectal cancer, chemotherapy, surgery,...
Bowel screening helps to detect early cancers before they have the power to kill
in screen detected versus non-screen detected colorectal cancer; a contemporaneous study (conference abstract). 8th NCRI Cancer Conference,... colorectal cancer screening, bowel cancer, early diagnosis, modified Glasgow Prognostic Score...
New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis
ability to detect the early stages of colorectal cancer in mice, and to monitor the progression of liver fibrosis. Liver fibrosis is...
CT scans are the best alternative to colonoscopy to investigate bowel cancer symptoms
versus barium enema for diagnosis of colorectal cancer or large polyps in symptomatic patients (SIGGAR): a multicentre randomised...
Breast cancer gene provides vital clue to bowel cancer drug resistance
to anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. British Journal of Cancer 2013. doi:...
Obesity, physical inactivity linked with risk for certain molecular subtype of colorectal cancer
with risk for certain molecular subtype of colorectal cancer... mass index was associated with a higher risk for colorectal cancer with a specific molecular characteristic, and inversely, physical activity was... know that exercise and avoiding obesity decrease colorectal cancer risk, but little is known about why,” said Shuji Ogino, M.D., Ph.D., associate ... physical inactivity, CTNNB1 expression status, colorectal cancer...
Family history of bowel cancer increases odds of survival
between family history and survival from colorectal cancer. British Journal of Cancer 2013. doi:...
Women smokers may have greater risk for colon cancer than men
“A causal relationship between smoking and colorectal cancer has recently been established by the International Agency for Research on...
Colorectal cancer survivors face increased risk of subsequent cancers of different types
Colorectal cancer survivors face increased risk of subsequent cancers of different... Colorectal cancer survivors face an increased risk of developing subsequent cancers,... depositphotos.com Studies have found that colorectal cancer survivors have a greater risk of developing another cancer compared with the... colorectal cancer survivors, bowel cancer...
Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future
screening, and only slightly above 25 % in colorectal cancer screening. However, these numbers represent a ceiling that cannot be overcome... cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, cancer...
IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'
Cancer Screening Programme Czech National Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme Reference Stewart, B. W., Wild, C. P....
Colorectal cancer screening works; ‘irrefutable’ evidence that fall in death rates is attributable to screening programmes
Colorectal cancer screening works; ‘irrefutable’ evidence that fall in death rates is att... for colorectal cancer (CRC) in European countries is highly effective in reducing mortality from the... of CRC; huge strides can be made in decreasing colorectal cancer deaths through screening"” Professor Autier concluded.... colorectal cancer screening, faecal occult blood test (FOBT), endoscopy, endoscopic...
Healthy lifestyle choices add up to cut bowel cancer risk
Combined impact of healthy lifestyle factors on colorectal cancer: a large European cohort study. BMC Medicine 2014. doi:...
Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC
men in East Africa but rare in West Africa [3]. Colorectal cancer, once rare in Japan, increased 4-fold in incidence in just two decades. These...
NSAIDs prevent colon cancer by inducing death of intestinal stem cells that have gene mutation
(NSAIDs) protect against the development of colorectal cancer by inducing cell suicide pathways in intestinal stem cells that carry a... could help us design new drugs to prevent colorectal cancer, which is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the...
Cancer fear and discomforting thoughts impact colorectal cancer screening uptake
fear and discomforting thoughts impact colorectal cancer screening... or “definitely” take up the offer of colorectal cancer screening, 1,995 were randomized to receive a screening invitation. Records... screening uptake, colorectal cancer,...
Very overweight teens may double their risk of bowel cancer in middle age
erythrocyte sedimentation rate in relation to colorectal cancer risk. Gut 2015. doi:...
A healthy lifestyle before diagnosis may improve bowel cancer survival
WCRF/AICR guidelines and survival in European colorectal cancer patients: a cohort study. BMC Medicine 2015. doi:...
The Czech Republic ranks among developed countries in cancer prevention
year of the international conference European Colorectal Cancer Days. This event was held in Brno, Czech Republic, from 29th to 30th May 2015,... colorectal cancer screening, screening colonoscopy, faecal occult blood test...
MD Anderson study finds one-third of colorectal cancers diagnosed before age 35 are hereditary
Anderson study finds one-third of colorectal cancers diagnosed before age 35 are... colorectal cancers, caused by inherited gene mutations, are relatively rare for most patients.... five percent of all colorectal cancer (CRC) cases are caused by hereditary syndromes, such as Lynch syndrome and... colorectal cancer, Lynch syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis...
Processed and red meats are linked to cancer, says IARC
effect. This association was observed mainly for colorectal cancer, but associations were also seen for pancreatic cancer and prostate... meat, processed meat, colorectal cancer,...
Scientists uncover four different types of bowel cancer
R, et al. The consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer. Nature Medicine 2015. doi:...
Naturally high oestrogen levels may lower women's bowel cancer risk
evaluation of endogenous sex hormone levels and colorectal cancer risk in postmenopausal women. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2015....
Research points to why some colorectal cancers recur after treatment
points to why some colorectal cancers recur after... is one of the key therapies for metastatic colorectal cancer. Yet the cancer still returns in some patients, shortening overall survival. A... with poorer clinical outcomes observed in colorectal cancer patients and higher recurrence rates following cetuximab treatment." The... growth factor receptor (EGFR), metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), extracellular methylation,...
Faecal immunochemical test screening effective at 4 years
test (FIT) is highly effective for annual colorectal cancer screening programs for average-risk patients, according to results of a study... over guaiac-based faecal occult blood tests for colorectal cancer (CRC) and has a sensitivity of 79% for a single use, but its utility has not... colorectal cancer screening, faecal occult blood test (FOBT), faecal immunochemical test...
Landmark study gives clearest picture of genetic causes of bowel cancer
and their contribution to the heritable risk of colorectal cancer. Nature Communications 2016. doi:...
Public health in the EU: encouraging developments in the area of national cancer screening programmes
screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer... and Food Safety, said “Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer claim the lives of around a quarter of a million European citizens each year.... cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, European...
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... others) and in a subgroup of 1,336 cases of colorectal cancer and 2,744 controls a blood test was performed to detect the genetic... colorectal cancer, heredity,...
Alcohol & Digestive Cancers: Time for Change
moderate drinkers have an increased risk of colorectal cancer and heavy drinkers are at an increased risk of pancreatic, gastric and liver... cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric...
European Digestive Cancer Days 2017 – Prevention and Screening
picked up the threads of the annual European Colorectal Cancer Days (ECCD) conference and extended its focus. As one of its objectives, the... colorectal cancer screening, prevention programmes, cancer...
Preventing colorectal cancer: New report updates dietary and activity recommendations
colorectal cancer: New report updates dietary and activity... lifestyle factors and the risk of developing colorectal cancer. This report, which updates those published earlier [2, 3] with the inclusion... Report. Diet, nutrition, physical activity and colorectal cancer. 2017. Available at... colorectal cancer, prevention, lifestyle factors, wholegrains, processed meat, alcohol, body...
Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers, say experts
of the 5 primary digestive cancers, only colorectal cancer (CRC) is screened for and whilst some significant progress has been made in... cancers, colorectal cancer, screening, early detection, United European Gastroenterology, European...
Women who take the pill protected from some cancers for up to thirty years
used the pill, women are less likely to have colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer than women who had never used the... pill, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian...
CancerSEEK: Generalised screening for multiple cancer types
cancer, pancreatic cancer, oesophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast...
Colorectal cancer: Combined analysis enhances risk prediction
Colorectal cancer: Combined analysis enhances risk... first-degree relatives are affected by colorectal cancer, this indicates a person’s own elevated risk of developing bowel cancer.... about cancer cases among close family members. Colorectal cancer in first-degree relatives is considered a known risk factor for the disease.... colorectal cancer, genetic risk markers, single nucleotide polymorphisms, genetic...
Evidence mounts of link between severe gum disease and various cancers
gum disease, oral cancers, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic...
The IARC perspective on colorectal cancer screening
IARC perspective on colorectal cancer... Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in men and the second most common in women and... Comparative effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening techniques 6 Reference Introduction An international... colorectal cancer screening, endoscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, guaiac faecal occult blood...
Links between red meat and distal colon cancer
the biggest challenges in the study of diet and colorectal cancer.” “Our research is one of the few studies looking at this... patterns, red meat, poultry, fish, vegetarian, colorectal cancer, distal colon cancer, cohort...
Cancer incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6 women
GLOBOCAN 2018, lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, liver...
European colorectal cancer rates in young adults increasing by 6% per year
colorectal cancer rates in young adults increasing by 6% per... Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence rates across Europe in adults aged 20 to 39 years increased by... North American population that demonstrates that colorectal cancer is increasing in young adults. In Europe, however, information until now has... colorectal cancer, incidence, young...
Obesity linked to increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer
linked to increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer... or obese have up to twice the risk of developing colorectal cancer before age 50 as women who have what is considered a normal body mass index... the United States, overall rates of new colorectal cancer cases and deaths from the disease have decreased steadily since 1980, largely... colorectal cancer, excess weight, overweight, obesity, body mass index...
Colon cancer growth reduced by exercise
the University of Waterloo, Ontario, involved colorectal cancer survivors completing either a single session of HIIT or 12 sessions over 4... cancer, colorectal cancer, high intensity interval training (HIIT), physically active...
Global microbial signatures for colorectal cancer
microbial signatures for colorectal cancer... that gut microbes play in the development of colorectal cancer – the third most common cancer worldwide – is less clear. To determine their in... existing microbiome association studies of colorectal cancer together with newly generated data. Their meta-analyses establish... colorectal cancer, microbiome, microbial signatures, gut microbes, metagenomics,...
Rich inner lives: exploring the connection between cancer and the human microbiome
cancer research, colorectal cancer...
Statins linked to lower risk of early death in patients with colorectal cancer
to lower risk of early death in patients with colorectal cancer... of statins before or after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer was linked with a lower risk of premature death, both from cancer and from... 14 studies involving 130,994 patients with colorectal cancer. Pre-diagnosis statin use was linked with a 15 percent lower risk of dying... colorectal cancer, early death,...
A gut feeling: microbiome changes may mean early detection of colorectal cancer
microbiome changes may mean early detection of colorectal cancer... are linked to the malignancies associated with colorectal cancer, such as intramucosal carcinomas and polypoid adenomas. Their results,... depositphotos.com “We believe that colorectal cancer is fundamentally not only a genetic but also a microbial disease,” says... microbiota, colorectal cancer, polypoid adenomas, intramucosal carcinomas, metagenomics,...