ASCO 2019: The eight biggest stories on anticancer agents
Here is ecancer’s speedy recap on the presentations from the 2019 American Society of Clinical…
Browsing: GI Cancers
MSI detection via liquid biopsy shows high concordance with results from tissue samples
A study, published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research has reported the incorporation of pan-cancer microsatellite instability…
Precision editing of gut bacteria reduces cancer in mice
UT Southwestern researchers have shown that precision editing of the bacterial populations in the gut…
New material could make it easier to remove pre-cancerous colon polyps
More than 15 million colonoscopies are performed in the United States every year, and in…
Lymph nodes can predict survival in patients with oesophageal cancer
Optimal methods for predicting treatment efficacy in patients with oesophageal cancer are seriously lacking. But…
An inflammatory diet correlates with colorectal cancer risk
Researchers from the Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy in Oncology program (Oncobell) of the Bellvitge…
More colorectal cancer cases are being diagnosed in younger patients
The incidence of colorectal cancer in adults younger than 50 years of age has increased…
Daily coffee doesn’t affect cancer risk
Drinking coffee does not change a person’s risk of being diagnosed with or dying from…
A miniature robot that could check colons for early signs of disease
Engineers have shown it is technically possible to guide a tiny robotic capsule inside the…
Sedation method does not affect colonoscopy detection rate
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States and…