AGITG Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 Review
Challenging the enigmatic nature of gastro-intestinal cancers The 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of Australasian…
Browsing: GI Cancers
Here’s what you can eat and avoid to reduce your risk of bowel cancer
Suzanne Mahady, Monash University Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in…
Providing more testing choices does not increase colorectal cancer screening rates
Offering patients the choice between home screening or in-office colonoscopy does not increase participation in…
Exercise associated with benefit to patients with advanced colorectal cancer
Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who engaged in moderate exercise while undergoing chemotherapy tended to…
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…
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…