Researchers develop personalised medicine tool for inherited colorectal cancer syndrome
An international team of researchers led by Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of…
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ESMO 2018: Major response to immunotherapy in early stage mismatch repair deficient colon cancer
Pre-operative treatment with a combination of the immune checkpoint inhibitors nivolumab and ipilimumab achieves major…
New cancer vaccine shows early promise for patients with HER2-positive cancers
Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic…
Colon cancer is caused by bacteria and cell stress
Professor Dirk Haller and his team, from the Department of Nutrition and Immunology at the…
Anti-inflammatory use during surgery could improve cancer outcomes
The world’s first clinical trial (SURGUVANT) evaluating anti-inflammatory use at the time of surgery in…
Low/no calorie soft drinks linked to improved outcomes in advanced colon cancer patients
Drinking artificially-sweetened beverages is associated with a significantly lower risk of colon cancer recurrence and…
Researchers apply computing power to track the spread of cancer
Princeton researchers have developed a new computational method that increases the ability to track the…
A test to improve the care and treatment of colon cancer
Disease progression in patients with colon cancer can now be defined more accurately with Immunoscore,…
Study shines light on gut microbiome in colon cancer
Researchers have identified a correlation between microbiomand microRNA expression in human colorectal cancer, according to…
Certain iron supplements may influence the development of colon cancer
Two common iron compounds increase the formation of a known biomarker for cancer, according to…