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Blood Test Reveals Colon Cancer Proteins

... before their scheduled colonoscopies, and from 28 colorectal cancer patients. Using a particular concentration of scaffold-proteins as a marker for disease, the Johns Hopkins team - which did not know the colonoscopy results in advance -- were 100 percent accurate in identifying the 28 existing cancers. Usin...

New Agent to Fight Genetic Disorders Found

...tic kidney disease, some instances of glaucoma and colorectal cancer, and neurofibromatosis, among others. "Zorro-LNA is a new substance that targets DNA and turns off genes," said co-author Edvard Smith of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. "It has the potential of becoming a new drug for the treatment of h...

Virtual Colonoscopy is Most-effective for Screening Colon Cancer

...es little to significantly reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) and, in fact, results in extremely hi...available tests is the key to reducing deaths from colorectal cancer, the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. Despite the availability of e...

Social Factors Not Genetics Drive Racial Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival

...ificant impact in reducing survival differences in colorectal cancer (CRC) between African// Americans and Caucasians, according to a new study. Published in the June 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, a meta-analysis of data from published studies demonstrated that...

Seniors Encouraged To Make Use Of Medicare’s Freebie

...r survival rate for people with early detection of colorectal cancer exceeds 90 percent. Yet, only about 59 percent of beneficiaries say they've had a colonoscopy. Currently, Medicare provides health insurance coverage to about 43 million seniors and the disabled. The first week of the campaign will focus o...

Queensland Men Need Push To Use Colorectal Cancer Screening

...ensland men have never been screened for prostate, colorectal or skin cancer, according to cancer researchers. // Screening for colorectal cancer currently has stronger scientific evidence for reducing the risk of death than screening for ...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...re much harder to eradicate, says Leonard Saltz, a colorectal cancer expert at New York's Memorial Sloan-Ketteri...Food and Drug Administration has approved five new colorectal cancer drugs since 1996: Camptosar, Eloxatin, Erbitux, Avastin and Vectibix. In order to test for ...

Rice Bran Reduces Risk of Intestinal Cancer

...of future research would be to study the potential colorectal cancer-preventing properties of stabilized rice bran. 'It is known that bran from wheat and rye have anti-cancer properties but this is the first time that this has been shown for rice bran. It appears that rice bran may have a role to play in redu...

RF Ablation a Safe Alternative Option for Treating Lung Cancer

...-year survival rate of 34 percent. Patients with colorectal pulmonary metastasis, in which cancer began in the colon and spread to the lung, had a 57 percent five-year survival rate following RF ablation, which is better than some surgical studies. “It’s important for physicians to know that RF ablation is ...

Stay Healthy at Any Age With Preventive Screening

...cholesterol checks, tests for high blood pressure, colorectal cancer screening and recent Task Force recommendat...reening for high cholesterol; breast, cervical and colorectal cancers; and osteoporosis. It also includes recent Task Force recommendations on obesity screening a...

Statin Drugs and Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

...ies inversely associate statin use with breast and colorectal cancers, but others to include epidemiologic ones have not supported this observation. Dr. Platz and colleagues evaluated over 30,000 men in a longitudinal health study with regard to statin use and risk of prostate cancer (CaP) and reported their fi...

Bowel Cancer Screening Program

... can also aid uptake of the current guidelines for colorectal cancer treatment and care. “Our findings show t...alth and Medical Research Council’s guidelines for colorectal cancer implies that better strategies are needed to ensure greater compliance.” In a separate stu...

Aspirin Or NSAIDs Will not Prevent Colorectal Cancer

People who are at average risk for colorectal cancer, including those with a family history of t...ommendation related to taking medicines to prevent colorectal cancer. After reviewing the latest evidence on the topic, the Task Force found that the potential ha...

Want a Healthy Colon? Eat a Rainbow!

...alcium intake has been shown to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer. o Calcium can be found in a wide variety ...n of calcium, and has been shown to play a role in colorectal cancer prevention. o Get outside! Vitamin D is derived mainly from sunlight, but can also be found ...

New Surgical Technique Decreases Colorectal OR Time

For patients with colorectal cancer who require the surgical removal of a part of their colon (colectomy), an experimental procedure may decrease the time they spend// in the operating room (OR). The procedure combines both the benefits of laparoscopic surgery and open surgery. ...

Discovery of Cell Pathway may Help Colon Cancer Patients

One in 18 men and women will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer during their lifetimes -- that translates i...n 150,000 people diagnosed // and more than 52,000 colorectal cancer deaths each year, securing the disease as the second leading cause of cancer death in the Uni...

New Screening Protocol Identifies More Case Of Lynch Syndrome

..., a disorder that predisposes people to developing colorectal cancer at a young age, //researchers report in the...ch syndrome, also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), is caused by mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes, the genes that fix errors that ...

People With Genetic Predictors of Colorectal Cancer are Not Getting Screened

... a condition that is a strong genetic predictor of colorectal cancer, many patients do not seek out genetic coun...us polyposis, a condition that very often leads to colorectal cancer,” says study author Dr. Anita Kinney. “Unfortunately, only about half of those diagnosed with...

Omega-3 Again Linked to Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk

... intake of omega-3 fatty acids may cut the risk of colorectal cancer in men by a whopping 66 per cent, but only ...hat aspirin has also been linked to a reduction in colorectal cancer via a similar mechanism. The new research investigated the link between the fatty acid con...

Cancer Drug Avastin Fights Brain Tumors too

Lung and colorectal cancer drug Avastin has been tested for the first time against the most common and deadly// form of brain cancer. Duke University researchers used Avastin, known chemically as bevacizumab, in combination with a standard chemotherapy agent in patien...

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