A number of colorectal cancer care advocacy groups and the American Cancer of Radiology are lobbying Congress to pass the CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act, an initiative that could lower costs and increase screening rates.
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Dead bacteria cells and bacteria excretions from Clostridium sporogenes have successfully been used to kill colorectcal cancer cells in a preclinical study performed by researchers at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
John Zalcberg, PhD, medical oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia, talks about the poor prognosis of refractory advanced oesophago-gastric cancer (AOGC) patients and how regorafenib could benefit those patients.
Dr. Deirdre Cohen talks about the increasingly big role of immunotherapies in the treatment of patients with gastric cancers.
The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as a potential therapy for patients with microsatellite instability-high metastatic colorectal cancer.
Frank A. Sinicrope, MD, talks about sporadic mismatch repair deficient colonic cancer tumors compared to familial related to germ line mutations in the setting of Lynch syndrome.
Dirk Arnold, MD, PhD, Professor and Head Dept. Hematology and Medical Oncology at Tumor Biology Center in Freiburg, Germany, talks about sirflox and its phase III trials on whether or not it can properly add local ablative treatment to diffuse metastasization of the liver.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans and red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans.
The FDA has approved MM-398 in combination with 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin as a treatment for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Hypofractionated radiotherapy can achieve similar cure rates with similar side effects compared with conventional radiotherapy for men with low-risk, early prostate cancer, according to a recent study.
Patients who received hypofractionated radiation therapy did not demonstrate statistically significant differences in long-term outcomes compared with patients who received conventional radiation therapy, according to a study .
Everolimus demonstrated a 52% reduction in the risk of progression or death in patients with lung/gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors, improving progression-free survival by 7.1 months compared with placebo.
Hypofractionation, known as delivering higher doses of radiation in fewer fractions, appears to be feasible and non-inferior compared with conventional fractionated radiotherapy.
Flares of bone pain decreased significantly when the oral corticosteroid dexamethasone was added to radiation therapy in patients with metastatic cancer, according to a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
Coordinating radiation therapy teams and palliative care teams based on patient reported outcomes from University of Virginia Health System improved outpatient symptom management and decreased end-of-life hospitalizations, as well as costs of care for patients with late-stage cancer.
The USPSTF recently posted a draft recommendation statement and draft evidence review on screening for colorectal cancer prompting responses from organizations and industry.
A more than 25-month improvement in overall survival was seen with lyso-thermosensitive liposomal doxorubicin (LTLD; ThermoDox) combined with optimized (?45 minutes dwell time) radiofrequency ablation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Patients with advanced lung and gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors had a 52% reduction in risk of progression or death with everolimus compared with placebo.
The oral nucleoside TAS-102 (Lonsurf) has been approved by the FDA for patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) who are not responding to other treatments.
Researchers from United States and Ireland have formed a partnership to advance nanoparticle-based delivery systems that would not only drive sustained-release of cytotoxic agents, but could improve penetration of these treatments within the tumor and allow them to continue working for days or weeks.
A novel basket trial has reported results on the treatment of vemurafenib in variety of nonmelanoma cancers with BRAF V600 mutation.
Recent therapeutic advances have almost doubled the survival of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, and the availability of highly active chemotherapy regimens is making personalized medicine a reality.
Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, discusses regorafenib for the treatment of patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
Andrew Hendifar, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses PEGPH20 with nab-paclitaxel/gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer.
Manish A. Shah, MD, medical oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, discusses the results of the METGastric study.