Western diets are typically low in fibre and have been linked with a higher incidence of bowel cancer. Even though Australians eat more dietary fibre than many other western countries, bowel cancer is still the second most commonly reported cancer in A…
Colon cancer patients who take aspirin regularly shortly after diagnosis tend to live for longer, researchers from Leiden University Medical Centre, the Netherlands, reported in the British Journal of Cancer. The authors explain that NSAIDs (non-steroi…
According to a new report, the ’2025 Challenge: Saving and Improving Lives’ from Bowel Cancer UK, the Government could reduce bowel cancer deaths by 60% by 2025, if it follows the recommendations of its new report. In the UK, bowel cancer is the secon…
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a new mechanism by which colon cancer develops. Whilst concentrating on ‘junk DNA’ i.e. DNA segments located between genes, the team found a set of master switches …
A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that obese white women may be less likely than normal-weight counterparts and African-Americans of any weight or gender to seek potentially lifesaving colon cancer screening tests. Results of this study fo…
Anurag Singh, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine presented his recent work on targeted therapeutics for colon cancer at the American Association of Cancer Res…
A study published in the April 4 issue of JAMA reveals that patients who receive the drug cetuximab in addition to chemotherapy after undergoing surgery for stage III colon cancer do not have improved disease-free survival. According to the research…
The new clinical guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of bowel cancer have been published by the Cancer Council Australia. Dr. Cameron Bell, Chair of the Surveillance Colonoscopy Guidelines Working Party, says that the guidelines of…
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated that cancer of the appendix is different than colon cancer, a distinction that could lead to more effective treatments for both diseases. The study by Edward A. Levine, M.D., professor…
Colorectal cancer is seen as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, for both men and women, in the United States. With that in mind, the American College of Physicians (ACP) has published a new guidance statement in the Annals of Internal M…
