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October 29, 2009
NSAIDs tied to reduced death after colon cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who regularly use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have better survival after a colorectal cancer diagnosis, research indicates.
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October 12, 2009
Are old drugs the future of personalized medicine?
LONDON (Reuters) - Shaping the future of personalised medicine is not all about developing expensive new drugs - it will also mean revisiting older, cheaper medicines armed with new genetic knowledge.
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September 29, 2009
Does estrogen help women survive colon cancer?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Estrogen could help women diagnosed with advanced colon cancer to survive longer, a new study out in the journal Clinical Cancer Research suggests.
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September 24, 2009
Folate-rich diet cuts women's colon cancer risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating plenty of folate may sharply reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, at least for women, South Korean researchers report.
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September 24, 2009
Fat caused 124,000 cancer cases in Europe: experts
BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 124,000 people in Europe developed cancer last year because they are overweight, and rising body fat levels threaten to add tens of thousands more to their ranks, experts said on Thursday.
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September 23, 2009
Erbitux extends life in one study, fails in second
BERLIN (Reuters) - Colon cancer drug Erbitux produced conflicting results in clinical trials on Wednesday, as one study showed it improved survival in patients with a certain genetic profile while a second found no difference.
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September 7, 2009
Where one lives impacts colon cancer survival
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surviving colorectal cancer may depend partially on where one lives, a study hints.
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August 26, 2009
Colorectal cancer attitudes vary by ethnicity
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men and people of South Asian descent are more likely to have unfavorable perceptions of colon cancer screening, research from the UK shows.
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August 21, 2009
Scientists make "sugar bug" drug for bowel disease
LONDON (Reuters) - A genetically modified bacterium that turns into a drug-delivery vehicle in the presence of a type of sugar may offer a new way to treat bowel disease, British scientists said on Friday.
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August 12, 2009
Aspirin cuts colon cancer death risk: U.S. study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Taking aspirin not only can help keep colon cancer from coming back, but it also can lower the risk of dying from the disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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July 31, 2009
Getting personal: New tests aid drug performance
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Better diagnostic tests and pressure to lower healthcare costs may finally usher in the era of personalized medicine, in which patients get drugs tailored to their genetic makeup, a new report suggests.
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July 30, 2009
Exercise matters long after cancer diagnosis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The familiar "eat right and exercise" message is particularly important for overweight elderly survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers, because lifestyle factors can significantly affect their quality of life, new research shows.
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July 23, 2009
Cancer meeting reports often not the final word
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Preliminary results of cancer treatment studies presented at major cancer meetings should be viewed with caution, because the final results may wind up being quite different, new research shows.
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July 7, 2009
Diet, smoking, exercise key in colon cancer risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who want to reduce their risk of colon cancer may want to start exercising more and cutting down on red meat and alcohol, a new research review suggests.
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June 19, 2009
Access to colon care limited for some Americans
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As the number of African Americans in a given US county increases, the number of specialists who diagnose and treat colorectal cancer decreases, new research shows.
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June 17, 2009
"Virtual colonoscopy" may be an option, study shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So-called virtual colonoscopies -- done using souped-up x-rays -- detect tumors and precancerous lesions almost as well as standard colonoscopies using a camera threaded through the colon, Italian researchers reported on Tuesday.
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June 12, 2009
"Navigators" help improve colon cancer screening
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Trained guides known as patient navigators can help encourage people to get screened for colorectal cancer, the results of a new pilot study shows.
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June 2, 2009
Deep sedation helps doctors find more polyps: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Doctors find more colon polyps when their patients are fully unconscious instead of only moderately sedated during colonoscopy exams, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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May 29, 2009
Seniors stay healthier when they live with spouse
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly, community-dwelling men and women appear more likely to obtain preventive health care when they live with their spouse, as opposed to living alone or with an adult child, researchers report in the American Journal of Public Health.
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May 13, 2009
Medicare will not pay for "virtual" colonoscopy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare, the U.S. federal health insurance plan for the elderly and disabled, will not pay for so-called virtual colonoscopies, which check for colon cancer using scans.
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May 7, 2009
Lifestyle shift would cut colon cancer rates
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If residents of the UK would adopt lifestyle guidelines now recommended by health authorities -- and stop getting fatter -- the country would see a substantial drop in the number of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer over the next couple of decades, a new report shows.
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April 13, 2009
Colorectal cancer risk appears unaffected by coffee
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Coffee is not significantly associated with a decreased risk of colorectal, colon, or rectal cancer, contrary to the results of previous trials that found a possible protective effect of coffee against these cancers, according to the results of a review of studies published in the International Journal of Cancer.
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April 7, 2009
Age cutoffs for colon cancer screening debated
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Decisions about the advisability of colorectal cancer screening should give more attention to life expectancy and less attention to age, according to a new report.
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April 2, 2009
Germany: Colonoscopy prevents 15,000 cancer cases
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers from Germany estimate that over 15,000 colorectal cancers will be prevented through 2010 since the country began using colonoscopy as the primary screening tool in 2002. This is all the more impressive given that participation rates were rather low.
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March 24, 2009
Cancer cure rates on the rise in Europe: study
LONDON (Reuters) - More Europeans are beating cancer, perhaps due to more widespread screening and earlier diagnosis, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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March 11, 2009
New guidelines for colon cancer screening issued
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has just released new guidelines for colorectal cancer screening -- the first update to their last recommendations issued in 2000.
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December 30, 2008
No cancer risk reductions seen with antioxidants
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the large Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study, participants who took beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, or a combination of supplements had no significant reductions in their risk of cancer.
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December 26, 2008
Pain pills may cut risk of bowel cancer: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Use of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for over 5 years may lessen a person's risk of developing cancer of the lower portion of the large bowel, study findings suggest.
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December 18, 2008
Improved stool DNA test helps spot colon cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A simplified colorectal cancer screening test that detects tumor DNA in stool is an improvement over an earlier-generation assay, according to North American researchers.
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December 16, 2008
Cancer even deadlier for people with diabetes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer, the world's No. 2 killer, is even more lethal for people with diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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December 16, 2008
Smoking linked to colorectal cancer deaths
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cigarette smoking is associated with the occurrence of colorectal cancer and with mortality from the disease, according to a multinational team.
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December 16, 2008
Real-world colonoscopy benefit seen more limited
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy seems to prevent about two-thirds of deaths from colon cancer, rather than 90 percent as has been widely claimed, a study indicates.
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December 15, 2008
U.S. blacks lag whites in colorectal cancer progress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Colorectal cancer diagnoses and deaths have fallen in the United States this decade, but the gap in progress between whites and blacks is widening, the American Cancer Society said on Monday.
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December 9, 2008
Cancer to pass heart disease as No. 1 killer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010, with a growing burden in poor countries thanks to more cigarette smoking and other factors, global health experts said on Tuesday.
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December 4, 2008
Gallstones a risk factor for colon tumors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with gallstones appear to be at increased risk for colon tumors called adenomas, which frequently develop into cancer over time if they are not removed, findings published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology indicate.
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November 28, 2008
Testing for cancer at home
TORONTO (Reuters) - It might not be pleasant, but it could save your life. A new Canadian campaign advocating home screening for colorectal cancer could reduce deaths from the disease by catching it early, when it is often asymptomatic but also highly curable.
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November 24, 2008
Home interventions benefit older cancer survivors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A home-based diet and exercise program may improve physical functioning in elderly, long-term cancer survivors, results of a controlled study indicate.
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November 21, 2008
Study backs Finland's colon cancer screening
LONDON (Reuters) - A national screening program in Finland has detected about 40 percent of colon cancers early, showing that such tests can make a difference, Finnish researchers reported on Friday.
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November 20, 2008
Removing small colon polyps costly, unnecessary
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The surgical removal of small colon polyps found during computed tomography imaging of the colon, or CT colonography, is costly and unnecessary, according to a new study.
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November 17, 2008
Magnesium impacts calcium's anti-cancer effect
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the Calcium Polyp Prevention Study, calcium supplementation reduced the risk of recurrent colorectal adenomas -- growths or polyps that can become cancerous - only in men with a low dietary ratio of calcium to magnesium.
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October 1, 2008
Genetic link found to colon cancer in study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A gene related to a hormone secreted by the body's fat cells may lower the risk of colon cancer, a discovery that could reassure people with a family history of the disease, researchers said on Tuesday.
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September 29, 2008
More older Americans screened for colon cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There has been a substantial increase in the number of colorectal cancer screening tests conducted in older Americans, a new study shows.
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September 23, 2008
Severe distress common in cancer survivors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term survivors of adult cancers are significantly more likely than adults in the general population to have psychological distress severe enough to cause moderate to serious problems functioning in social, work or school situations.
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September 17, 2008
Negative colon cancer test makes 5-year risk low
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If the results of an initial colonoscopy indicates there are no polyps or cells that appear irregular, which may eventually become cancerous, the odds that a malignancy will develop within the next 5 years is "extremely low," according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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September 17, 2008
Radiation toxicity rates differ by ethnic subgroup
STOCKHOLM (Reuters Health) -Among patients undergoing chemoradiation following surgery for locally advanced stomach cancer, Ashkenazi Jews experience more treatment toxicities than do Sephardic Jews, according to a report presented here at the 33rd Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).
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September 11, 2008
Many colon cancer patients skip follow-up care
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of new research indicate that many older patients who survive colorectal cancer do not attend the guideline-recommended follow-up office visits or undergo carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) testing and colonoscopy.
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September 5, 2008
Screening rules may miss cancer in people with IBD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The diagnosis of colorectal cancer will be delayed or missed in a substantial number of people who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) if surveillance colonoscopy is conducted strictly according to official guidelines, investigators from the Netherlands warn in a report published this month.
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September 4, 2008
Gene trawl shows curing cancer harder than thought
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer experts who probed every gene in tumors from two of the hardest-to-treat cancers found that cancer is much more complicated than anyone thought -- and say they found why a cure is so unlikely after a tumor has spread.
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September 3, 2008
Prostate irradiation raises risk of colon cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Data from the Geneva Cancer Registry show an increased long-term risk of colon cancer in men who have undergone external radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
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September 2, 2008
Cancer, diabetes leave fingerprints in blood, serum
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Diseases such as cancer and diabetes leave "fingerprints" in the serum and blood plasma of patients and these may provide a valuable and non-invasive diagnostic tool in time to come, according to a Chinese study.