Gastrointestinal Cancer
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U.K. Study Links Dietary Fat to Esophageal Cancer Risk
Major Finding: Total dietary fat and saturated fatty acids were found to be positively associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma, but not with...
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Imaging Combo May Diagnose Gastric Cancer Without Biopsy
Major Finding: Magnifying NBI improves the diagnostic performance of white light endoscopy for discriminating gastric cancer from benign small...
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Longer Imatinib Therapy Improves Outcomes For High-Risk GIST
Major Finding: Compared with their counterparts who were given imatinib for just 1 year after surgery, patients who were given imatinib for 3...
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Longer Imatinib Therapy Improves Outcomes For High-Risk GIST
Major Finding: Compared with their counterparts who were given imatinib for just 1 year after surgery, patients who were given imatinib for 3...
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy Delay Worsens Survival After Colorectal Surgery
Major Finding: Each 4 weeks of delay beyond 1 month after curative resection of colorectal cancer is associated with a 14% decrease in overall and...
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy Delay Worsens Survival After Colorectal Surgery
Major Finding: Each 4 weeks of delay beyond 1 month after curative resection of colorectal cancer is associated with a 14% decrease in overall and...
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Trimodal Imaging No Better Than Standard Video for Colonoscopy
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Combining sorafenib with chemoembolization for hepatocellular cancer
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Sutent Approved for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
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Low-Dose Irradiation Allays 93% of Gastric MALT Lymphomas at 10 Years
Major Finding: After a median of 5.5 years, the disease control rate was 98%.Data Source: Data representing 16 years of experience with the use of...
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Two Factors Predict Postradiotherapy Swallowing Difficulties
Major Finding: The two factors most predictive for acute severe dysphagia at 6 months were nonglottic cancer (OR, 6.73 vs. other sites; P less...