Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Bariatric surgery can lead to diabetes remission, cut cancer risk
Patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery have a lower cancer risk. “Obesity may cause more cancer cases than...
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Flexible sigmoidoscopy ADR linked to long-term survival
The screening program had no apparent effect on incidence and mortality of proximal cancers.
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Cold snare polypectomy works for larger colorectal polyps too
A study from China supports use of cold snare polypectomy for removing large polyps up to 15 mm in size, with a low incomplete resection rate.
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Liver cancer risk lingers even after HCV eradication
Not having a sustained viral response was associated with a more than sevenfold higher risk for liver cancer in a multicenter study.
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Physicians may be overprescribing immunotherapy for unfit cancer patients
Study suggests the benefits from ICI therapy may not translate to patients who are traditionally excluded from phase 3 trials.
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Colorectal cancer rates rising in people aged 50-54 years
“Growing evidence also suggests that early life exposures, or exposures in childhood, infancy, or even in the womb, play an important role” in CRC...
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Survival the same for younger and older patients with metastatic CRC
Previous studies comparing survival in younger versus older patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have yielded conflicting results.
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Gastric cancer prevalent in hereditary breast cancer patients
The risk of occult gastric cancer is highly prevalent in HLBC families with any type of CDH1 variant irrespective of a family history of gastric...
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Chemotherapy with FOLFOX superior to TACE in liver cancer
Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy led to superior patient outcomes and less toxicity than standard of care transarterial chemoembolization in...
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Obesity interventions tied to colon cancer risk reduction
“We need to have conversations with our patients in the clinic and educate them that they have these resources available,” said Dr. Aakash Desai...
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Severe COVID two times higher for cancer patients