Rectal in Medical News

Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising for Under 50 Set

... of the increase was attributable to a rise in rectal cancer rates. During the study period, rectal cancer increased by an average of 3.5 percent a ... this year, along with almost 41,000 new cases of rectal cancer. The numbers will include about 15,000 ...

A feasible, simple and convenient model for study of rectal carcinoma

... The method of building a rabbit rectal VX2 carcinoma model by injecting the cell ... short growth period, and high stability. The rectal VX2 carcinoma established in this rabbit model is similar to human rectal carcinoma in aspects of pathological ...

Colorectal cancer risks quantified

... care. Our findings strengthen the view that rectal bleeding carries a high enough risk to warrant ... found that the highest risks were conferred by rectal bleeding and change in bowel habit. For men over 60 years, rectal bleeding positive predictive values (PPVs) ranged ...

How to increase the efficacy of local excision of rectal cancer

... imaging techniques, the accuracy of preoperative rectal cancer staging has increased dramatically, and the preservation of physical function in rectal cancer patients has become a very important aim ... for 5-year survival after local excision of rectal cancer, and examines the therapeutic efficacy and ...

US trial shows no early mortality benefit from annual prostate cancer screening

... either annual PSA blood tests and digital rectal exams or "routine care," meaning they had the ... annual PSA blood tests for six years and digital rectal exams for four years or routine care, which ... percent had PSA tests and 86 percent had digital rectal exams. Men in the routine-care arm sometimes had ...

Rectal Cancer Outcomes Best With Short-Course Radiation

... 5 (HealthDay News) -- For people with operable rectal cancer, the most effective treatment is a short ... study. Surgery is the standard treatment for rectal cancer, but just removing the tumor leaves a risk ... sexual dysfunction. The study involved 1,350 rectal cancer patients in the United Kingdom, Canada, ...

No differences in survival or neonatal outcomes in pregnancy-associated colorectal cancer

... were early deliveries in women with colon or rectal cancer. It could be related to a ... to patients with pregnancy-associated colon or rectal cancer, however Smith advises greater awareness ... with their pregnant patients for colon and rectal cancer symptoms," he said. "Rectal bleeding ...

Preoperative radiation may improve survival rates in advanced rectal cancer patients

... with radiation prior to surgery for advanced rectal cancer have fewer instances of cancer recurrence ... be considered a "one size fits all" approach for rectal cancer patients, said the report's primary ... to the hospital. In patients with late stage rectal cancer, the report supports the pre-surgical ...

Negative Cancer Messages Backfire With Blacks

... their habits of getting screened for colon and rectal cancer, as well as other cancers. The researchers ... "This has not been looked at as well in colon and rectal cancer." More information To learn more about colon and rectal cancer, visit the U.S. National Cancer Institute ...

Which is more accurate on diagnosis of rectal carcinoma?

... The depth of transmural tumor invasion along the rectal wall layers and involvement of the regional lymph ... constitute major factors in the prognosis of rectal cancer. Therefore accurate preoperative staging of rectal cancer carries a crucial importance in terms of ...

PSA screening may be biased against obese men, leading to more aggressive cancers

... screening to those who had an abnormal digital rectal exam, which may not confer the same bias against ... "In contrast, obese men with abnormal digital rectal exams had similar outcomes as normal-weight men," ... men are less commonly diagnosed based on digital rectal exam alone. The researchers are hopeful that ...

Alaven Pharmaceutical Introduces Kit for UC Patients

... Kit at the American Society of Colon and rectal Surgeons' annual meeting in Boston. The Kit contains ROWASA(R) (mesalamine) rectal Suspension Enema 4g/60mL, a treatment for flare ... to the site of inflammation, ROWASA reduces rectal bleeding in as little as 3 days(1) and provides ...

Blacks not receiving chemotherapy for rectal cancer, despite seeing cancer specialists

... Black patients and white patients are seeing rectal cancer specialists at similar rates, but blacks ... percent less likely to receive chemotherapy for rectal cancer and 12 percent less likely to receive ... Americans were not receiving chemotherapy for rectal cancer at the same rates as white Americans and ...

Black Rectal Cancer Patients Less Likely to Get Chemo, Radiation

... (HealthDay News) -- Even though black and white rectal cancer patients have similar referral rates to ... saw an oncologist after being diagnosed with rectal cancer, but only 54 percent of blacks received ... were not receiving chemotherapy for rectal cancer at the same rates as white Americans, and ...

Extra Drug Improves Rectal Cancer Treatment

... chemotherapy improves results for patients with rectal cancer. And adding the contraceptive drug ... survival by 91 percent among patients with rectal cancer. "Avastin is an antibody against a ... there are more than 40,000 new cases of rectal cancer diagnosed each year in the United States. ...

Drugs in the pipeline: new therapies that could change treatment strategies

... promise and progress against brain, colorectal, rectal and ovarian cancers and lymphoma. A ... bevacizumab with chemoradiation therapy in rectal cancer: LB304 Adding bevacizumab to standard chemotherapy and radiation in patients with rectal cancer fully prevented tumor spread and ...

PSA Test Losing Diagnostic Value, Study Says

... 50. The screening is done in two steps: a digital rectal exam, followed by a blood test for PSA, a protein ... gland. "In men with an abnormal digital rectal examination, it [the PSA test] still is very ... in New York City. "For men with a normal digital rectal examination, it has lost the predictive accuracy ...

Biopsy techniques have made PSA test less predictive

... for the indication of a suspicious digital rectal exam and there was an increase in the percentage ... patient population for men with a normal digital rectal exam and PSA 2.0 ng/ml. While changes in ... value of PSA in men with a normal digital rectal exam such that, using current biopsy practice ...

Flu and Fever Detection Facts for Dr. Mom

... comparable to temperature taken with a rectal thermometer -- long the standard for accuracy, ... Rule of Thumb: On a stable, resting patient, rectal temperature is approximately 2 o F (1 o C) higher ... arterial temperature is approximately the same as rectal temperature. The following presents the mean ...

Constipation most common cause of children's abdominal pain

... also suggests that physicians should do a simple rectal examination for constipation when trying to ... should perform an abdominal examination and a rectal examination to see if the child is retaining ... Loening said that some doctors shy away from the rectal examination, which involves digitally checking ...

Asacol treats UC symptoms of isolated proctitis

... weeks 83 percent of patients had improvement in rectal bleeding, 75 percent had mucosal healing and 57 ... therapy over other routes of delivery, such as rectal therapy. However, approximately 30 percent of ... UC and a baseline score in either or both the rectal bleeding and stool frequency clinical assessments ...

Study shows suppressing herpes virus may reduce infectiousness of HIV

... HSV decrease the levels of HIV in the blood and rectal secretions, which may make patients less likely ... a week during each treatment arm. At each visit, rectal secretions were collected and weekly blood ... levels of HIV in blood by about 50 percent and rectal secretions by about 30 percent during the 8 weeks ...

Guided radiation therapy for prostate cancer prevents damage to surrounding organs

... with this tumor will not have any long-term rectal damage. A group of 231 study participants ... Nearly 98 percent of these participants had no rectal damage, according to Todd Scarbrough, M.D., ... oncologists treating prostate cancer is to reduce rectal damage. Previously, 10 percent to 50 percent of ...

Oral Thermometers Can't Assess Exercise Heat Stroke

... Use a rectal thermometer instead, experts urge WEDNESDAY, ... stroke, a new study warns. Researchers say rectal thermometers do provide an accurate assessment of ... intense exercise in hot weather. However, a rectal thermometer and an ingestible thermometer pill ...

New Analyses of long-term LIALDA (mesalamine) data presented at ACG

... (UC-DAI) score of ≤1 with scores of 0 for rectal bleeding and stool frequency, a combined ... to experience initial symptom resolution of rectal bleeding and normalization of stool frequency. ... resolution of symptoms (stool frequency and rectal bleeding) was 25, 26 and 44 days, in the LIALDA ....

PSA Testing Still Valuable for Prostate Cancer

... involves two steps: undergoing a digital rectal exam and testing for PSA levels in the blood. In the rectal exam, the doctor feels the prostate to see if ... gel-filled "finger" that presses against the rectal wall -- doctors are getting astonishing results, ...

Amgen Announces KRAS Safety Update to U.S. Prescribing Information for Vectibix(R) (Panitumumab)

... November 2008, the NCCN announced updates to their Guidelines on Colon and rectal Cancers. The guideline updates included the recommendation that a ... that about 106,100 new cases of colon cancer and 40,870 new cases of rectal cancer will be diagnosed in 2009. Colorectal cancer is the second leading ...

Econiche(TM) Vaccine Efficacy Summarized in July Issue of Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

... Regional Vaccination Within a Cattle Feedyard on Escherichia coli O157:H7 rectal Colonization, Fecal Shedding, and Hide Contamination", was co-authored by ... on day 85 at the abattoir (meat processor). Colonization of the terminal rectal mucosa was also measured on day 85 at the abattoir. For fecal shedding, ...

Constipation May Lead to Other Problems

... between constipation and other conditions, too. Studies of people with rectal prolapse, in which the rectum becomes stretched and protrudes from the ... College of Pharmacy, Memphis, Tenn.; American Society for Colon and rectal Surgeons, Arlington Heights, Ill.; April 2004, American Journal of ...

AdvanDx Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for GBS PNA FISH(R) for Rapid Detection of Group B Strep from Lim Broths

... , aka Group B Strep, from turbid Lim Broths inoculated with vaginal and rectal swabs obtained from pregnant women between 35 and 37 weeks gestation. The ... During the routine laboratory testing process, vaginal and rectal swabs from pregnant women are inoculated into selective enrichment broth, ...

A surprise 'spark' for pre-cancerous colon polyps

... there are about 108,070 new cases of colon cancer and 40,740 new cases of rectal cancer each year in the United States. Colon and rectal cancers together claim 49,960 lives in the country annually. ...

Helping hand of hybrid surgery benefits colorectal patients

... the study's senior author. Dr. Milsom is section chief of colon and rectal surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Jerome J. DeCosse, M.D., Professor of Colon & rectal Surgery, and professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The ...

2 Studies Conflict Over Value of Prostate Cancer Screening

... Half were recommended to have annual PSA tests for six years and digital rectal exams for four years, while the other half was told to have their usual ... we can tell younger men what to do," he said. "If they do have a digital rectal exam and a PSA test, then the physician's reaction needs to be less ...

FDA Clears New Skin and Surface Treatment Applicator for Use With Xoft's Axxent(R) Electronic Brachytherapy (eBx) System

... for accelerated treatment of early stage breast cancer and endometrial and rectal cancers, the Axxent System is also cleared for use in the treatment of ... available for treatment of early stage breast cancer and endometrial and rectal indications, the Axxent(R) Electronic Brachytherapy System is also cleared ...

Long-Term Aspirin Use Seems to Protect Against Colorectal Lesions

... infrequently ulcers. But Dr. Jerald D. Wishner, director of colon and rectal surgery at Northern Westchester Hospital Center in Mount Kisco, N.Y., said ... School, Lebanon, N.H.; Jerald D. Wishner, M.D., director of colon and rectal surgery, Northern Westchester Hospital Center, Mount Kisco, N.Y.; Feb. ...

Malaria Vaccine Effective in Latest Trials

... report published online Dec. 8 in The Lancet , researchers found that the rectal application of artesunate was effective in treating children with malaria. The rectal application could be important because in severe cases of malaria patients ...

Can rectal vitamin E induce remission in patients with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis?

... changes of disease severity in patients with active UC who received daily rectal doses of d-alpha tocopherol for at least 12 wk. All 15 participating ... At the end of this interesting article the authors suggest that rectal administration of d-alpha tocopherol might be used safely as a new ...

OHSU Cancer Institute researchers study breathing during radiation

... alone. This process simultaneously reduces side effects, specifically rectal and bladder toxicities, and erectile dysfunction, as well as offering ... organs, causing complications like impotence, urinary incontinence and rectal bleeding. Therefore, doctors must guard against damaging healthy tissues ...

Groundbreaking cancer studies to be unveiled at ASTRO annual meeting

... Before Surgery Reduces Quality of Life and the Risk of Recurrence for rectal Cancer Patients The use of a short one-week course of radiation before surgery for rectal cancer leads to a reduced risk of recurrence but with some impairment in ...

Birchwood Laboratories Expands B-SURE™ Incontinence and Personal Care Product Line™; Three New Products Added Including B-SURE Fresh 'n Go™, B-SURE Bottom Balm™ and B-SURE Traveler™

... & Hemorrhoidal Care Stop itching and burning of irritated vaginal and rectal areas with these witch hazel towelettes. Convenient, pre-moistened, ... many healthcare professionals in clinics and hospitals. For hemorrhoidal, rectal and vaginal care, these B-SURE towelettes gently clean and soothe tissue ...