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Colorectal cancer: epidemiology and screening results

be treated successfully and that the chance of survival in such cases is much higher. Available population-based data on colorectal...


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Nine in ten survive early stage bowel cancer

that survived for at least five years. The survival figures were grouped together by each of the four stages of bowel cancer,...

Vitamin D helps improve survival from bowel and skin cancer

D helps improve survival from bowel and skin... higher levels of vitamin D may help improve survival for both bowel and skin cancer patients. The results of two studies published... colorectal cancer diagnosis may be important for survival. We are now planning further research in patients with bowel cancer to see if... cancer, skin cancer, survival, vitamin...

Low-dose aspirin may reduce bowel cancer risk

with bowel cancer did not have any impact on survival from the disease. The researchers concluded that long-term use of high-dose...

Abnormal body weight related to increased mortality in colon cancer patients

AE, Flood A, Anderson KE, Folsom AR. Survival of women with colon cancer in relation to precancer anthropometric...

Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes

use is not associated with cancer recurrence or survival in patients with stage III colon cancer: findings from CALGB 89803. Journal of... use, disease-free survival rate, recurrence-free survival rate, overall survival rate, bowel...

Critical step towards DNA test to detect early bowel cancer

treatment of bowel cancer – the five-year survival rates for bowel cancer have doubled over the last 40...

Survival benefit of cetuximab for metastatic colorectal cancer

Survival benefit of cetuximab for metastatic colorectal... overall survival improvement of 3.5 months compared with standard chemotherapy − updated a... The analysis included the evaluation of overall survival (OS) according to KRAS mutation status in patients with metastatic colorectal...

Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer

if we are to reduce inequality in cancer survival.” Hazel Nunn, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: “When ...

Bowel cancer risk calculator could help doctors diagnose the disease

that patients have the best possible chance of survival.” In April, the national cancer director for England, Professor Mike R...

Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients

association between physical activity and cancer survival, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, M.D., of the Applied Research Program in the Division...

Bowel cancer patients diagnosed through screening more likely to survive

cancers are at an early stage with an improved survival rate compared to cancers found in patients who did not attend... cancer, screening, FOBT, survival...

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

or bevacizumab, has been shown to increase survival from bowel cancer in around 10 to 15 per cent of patients, but it has been...

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

prevent colon cancer coming back and improve survival, these initial results are hugely encouraging. Around 1,000 patients from...

Bowel screening helps to detect early cancers before they have the power to kill

with features that may increase the chances of survival. It adds to what we already know about the benefits of bowel screening and...

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis

earlier could greatly improve the chances of survival for many patients. One way to do this is to look for specific proteins...

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

UK’s director of early diagnosis, said: “Survival rates for bowel cancer have doubled over the last 40 years thanks to better...

Breast cancer gene provides vital clue to bowel cancer drug resistance

treatments. These patients had the worst survival rates (4.2 months on average). While those with the normal number of HER2...

Visceral fat causally linked to intestinal cancer

of intestinal tumors, and had the worst overall survival,” Huffman said. “However, mice that had less visceral fat, either by surgical r...

Family history of bowel cancer increases odds of survival

history of bowel cancer increases odds of survival... history of the disease and a better chance of survival, published in the British Journal of Cancer... Cancer Data Repository (NCDR) on treatment and survival. And by tracking the survival of these bowel cancer patients they found that... cancer, family history, survival...

New type of bowel cancer discovered

how certain genes behave. “Bowel cancer survival rates have doubled over the last 40 years – research and a better...

A healthy lifestyle before diagnosis may improve bowel cancer survival

before diagnosis may improve bowel cancer survival... were associated with an improved likelihood of survival... help prevent bowel cancer could also improve the survival rates of people diagnosed with the disease. “Current advice given to cancer ... EPIC study, healthy lifestyle, bowel cancer survival...

The Czech Republic ranks among developed countries in cancer prevention

common ones – have stabilised, and long-term survival rates of cancer patients have increased. Despite these encouraging facts, the...

Scientists uncover four different types of bowel cancer

sites in the body, and had significantly worse survival rates than the other types. Patients with another type, CMS2, had much better...

Naturally high oestrogen levels may lower women's bowel cancer risk

research director, said: “Bowel cancer survival has doubled in the last 40 years thanks to scientists translating their...

Research points to why some colorectal cancers recur after treatment

returns in some patients, shortening overall survival. A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center may help explain...

Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers, say experts

at-risk patients the best possible chance of survival. Public health authorities also need to think smarter when delivering...