News tagged with 'Colorectal Cancer'

Taking aspirin regularly may make you much less likely to develop tumors of the colon and a new study finds even if taken after a diagnosis, survival increases.

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit, would like processed meats such as hot dogs, to be labeled with a warning of a link to colorectal and other cancers. Regular consumption of hot dogs preserved with nitrosamines have been cited by numerous cancer researchers. The food manufacturers deny any link. 

A new study, in the June issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, is the first to present colorectal cancer incidence trends across five continents.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and the American Cancer Society is promoting safe screening practices. Both men and women are at risk of colon cancer and should begin screening at 50.

Add smoking to the long list of risk factors for contracting colorectal cancer. Italian researchers find the risk of developing colorectal cancer increases by about 18 percent and the risk of dying  - about 25 percent.

Despite the progress that’s been made in death rates from colorectal cancer in the U.S. a racial gap still exists – black men and women are 45 percent more likely to die from the disease than whites.

Ontario officials are encouraging everyone take a home colorectal cancer test to find polyps in their early stages when they are 90 percent curable.

Customizing therapies to individual patients may require a pre-screening of a patient's genes, as researchers looking into targeted colon cancer therapies are reporting.

A new study on colon cancer may help doctors pinpoint who will benefit from the drug, Erbitux (Cetuximab).  Erbitux is most effective in treating colon cancer if the patient does not have a certain gene mutation, which applies to about two-thirds of patients treated.