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Colorectal cancer diagnosis
used in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer (e.g. colonoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, abdominal CT scan, magnetic resonance imaging and...
Board of Colorectal Cancer Screening
process, guarantees adherence to standards by colonoscopy screening centres, ensures the evaluation of screening programme via...
Contact
of accredited centres performing screening colonoscopy in the Czech Republic, please check our list or interactive map of those...
Colorectal cancer: introduction
adenocarcinoma of the large bowel and rectum. Colon cancer and rectal cancer have a lot in common, and they are often referred to...
Colorectal cancer prevention and risk factors
above, but can also affect younger people. Colon polyps Some types of polyps present another risk factors. Polyps are...
Publications
from polyp detection rate varies according to colonoscopy indication and patient sex. European Journal of Cancer Prevention 2019;...
Screening process
are available: repeated FOBT, screening colonoscopy as an alternative screening option. 1. FOBT In case of a...
Colorectal cancer screening
blood test (abbreviated as FOBT) and screening colonoscopy. However, there are significant differences between these two procedures...
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Cancer prevention
of a number of cancers, including breast and colon cancer, is much stronger. Any alcohol consumption can increase your risk of...
Colorectal cancer screening
regular faecal occult blood tests or screening colonoscopies. People aged over 50 years can decide between the following...
Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes
information… Clinical examination of colon and rectum Endoscopic examination of colon and rectum (men and women) will...
Leading colorectal cancer patient organisation calls on EU countries to improve poor standards of care
colon has called on all governments to implement existing EU recommendations on... [2], Jola Gore-Booth, Director of Europacolon said: “For too long colorectal cancer has been the poor relation in cancer s... colon Press...
No link between coffee, fizzy drinks and bowel cancer, says large US study
or sugary fizzy drinks "was not associated with colon cancer risk". "However, a modest positive association with higher tea...
Alphavirus-based vaccine may slow some cancers
the biomarker CEA, present in many malignant colon, breast, and lung cells. Read the whole article at...
Cancer deaths fall, but prevention still lags behind
weight gain and increasing physical activity on colon cancer incidence in seven European countries. The researchers used the PREVENT... prevention, cancer incidence and mortality, colon...
Ubiquitin D as a novel marker for colorectal cancer prognosis
CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Colon cancer is a major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality and is the third...
Abnormal body weight related to increased mortality in colon cancer patients
body weight related to increased mortality in colon cancer... women diagnosed with colon cancer may be at increased risk of death if they fail to maintain a healthy... may also be beneficial for those diagnosed with colon cancer later in life. It looks like abdominal obesity may be a useful...
Type 2 diabetes and insulin use are associated with colorectal cancer in men
(108 with type 2 diabetes) were diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer by 2007. Among men, type 2 diabetes was associated with...
Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes
use doesn't impact colon cancer... with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being treated with... a study of patients with stage III colon cancer - characterised as cancer in the large bowel area with some cancer...
Serum marker offer alternative for colorectal cancer detection
who test positive referred to a specialist for colonoscopy. But the difficulty of such approaches is that patient compliance with...
World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers
activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon... risk of developing a NCD, including breast and colon cancers, by undertaking various amounts and intensities of physical activity....
Exercise cuts risk of polyps that can develop into colon cancer
cuts risk of polyps that can develop into colon... in the bowel which can go on to develop into colon cancer, finds a meta-analysis study published in the British Journal of Cancer... between physical activity and the risk of colon cancer, with biological explanations including decreased inflammation,...
High levels of HDL cholesterol 'may cut colon cancer risk'
levels of HDL cholesterol 'may cut colon cancer... may be associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer, a European study... A (apoA), were the least likely to develop colon cancer only. For every 16.6mg/dl increase in HDL, the risk of colon cancer...
Aspirin 'should be recommended' to cut bowel cancer risk in people with inherited syndrome
also known as hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC), which is carried by around one person in every...
Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer
rather than women. Bowel cancer includes both colon and rectal cancers – and researchers in Scotland found that, in addition to t...
Launch of the Global Colon Cancer Alliance (GCCA)
of the Global Colon Cancer Alliance... launch of the Global Colon Cancer Alliance (GCCA) was announced today at the ASCO Gastrointestinal... world,” said Andrew Spiegel, CEO of the Colon Cancer Alliance and co-founder and co-chair of GCCA. “We have made huge... Colon Cancer Alliance (GCCA), Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA), EuropaColon, colon...
Colonoscopy prevents deaths from colon cancer
Colonoscopy prevents deaths from colon... a new study has shown that removing polyps by colonoscopy not only prevents colorectal cancer from developing, but also prevents... support continued recommendations of screening colonoscopy in people age 50 and older,” says Memorial Sloan-Kettering b... colonoscopy, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality rates, adenomatous...
Noninvasive stool test for colorectal cancer unaffected by medications, lifestyle factors and other variables
use in 500 patients undergoing screening colonoscopy or polyp follow-up. Patients had a normal colonoscopy in the last three...
Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients
linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer... activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the association for...
TCGA study shows colon and rectal tumours constitute a single type of cancer
study shows colon and rectal tumours constitute a single type of... pattern of genomic alterations in colon and rectal tissues is the same regardless of anatomic location or origin... multiple types of genomic analyses, colon and rectal cancer results were nearly indistinguishable. Initially, the TCGA...
Increased use of colonoscopy screening could explain decrease in colorectal cancer rates
use of colonoscopy screening could explain decrease in colorectal cancer... of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening could explain a significant decrease in... credit: depositphotos.com Although colonoscopy is now the most common colorectal cancer screening method, there has... colonoscopy, colorectal cancer screening, colorectal...
Bowel cancer 'chemo swap' shrinks tumours, making surgery safer and easier
had deemed it too risky to use this approach for colon cancers (part of the bowel) because, if tumours fail to respond to this...
CT scans are the best alternative to colonoscopy to investigate bowel cancer symptoms
scans are the best alternative to colonoscopy to investigate bowel cancer... less invasive test, sometimes called a ‘virtual colonoscopy’, is more effective than the traditional X-ray test of barium enema and s... needed before this type of scan, also called CT colonography (CTC), is used more widely because its ability to detect relatively... scan, barium enema, CT colonography (CTC), virtual colonoscopy, bowel...
Visceral fat causally linked to intestinal cancer
is directly linked to an increased risk for colon cancer, according to data from a mouse study published in Cancer Prevention... fat in mice genetically prone to developing colon cancer might prevent or lessen the development of these tumors. They... fat, intestinal cancer, colon cancer, increased...
Obesity, physical inactivity linked with risk for certain molecular subtype of colorectal cancer
to decreased mortality. Research on colon cancer should incorporate heterogeneity of...
New type of bowel cancer discovered
which has a worse outcome than other types of colon cancer and is resistant to certain targeted treatments, according to research... tumours from 90 separate patients with stage II colon cancer and found that they could group the samples into three distinct...
Women smokers may have greater risk for colon cancer than men
smokers may have greater risk for colon cancer than... increased the risk for developing colon cancer, and female smokers may have a greater risk than male smokers,... during the last 50 years, the number of new colon cancer cases per year has exploded for both men and women,” said Inger... smoking, colon...
Colorectal cancer survivors face increased risk of subsequent cancers of different types
where their past cancer was located within the colon or rectum. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to look at risk of...
NSAIDs prevent colon cancer by inducing death of intestinal stem cells that have gene mutation
prevent colon cancer by inducing death of intestinal stem cells that have gene... intestinal polyps, which can transform into colon cancer. But they have not known why, said senior investigator Lin Zhang,... anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), colon cancer, intestinal stem cells,...
Cancer fear and discomforting thoughts impact colorectal cancer screening uptake
are more likely to want to get screened for colon cancer, but feeling uncomfortable at the thought of cancer makes them less... were more likely to want to get screened for colon cancer, but those who felt uncomfortable were 12 percent less likely to attend...
Scientists discover why bowel cancer sometimes outsmarts treatment
Aberrant epithelial GREM1 expression initiates colonic tumorigenesis from cells outside the stem cell niche. Nature Medicine 2015....
The Czech Republic ranks among developed countries in cancer prevention
blood test (FOBT) and the primary screening colonoscopy. According to expert estimates, the coverage of the target population in... cancer screening, screening colonoscopy, faecal occult blood test...
Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers
has been associated with a lower risk for colon, breast, and endometrial... activity, colon cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, cancer prevention, cancer...
New review concludes evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong
the body: oropharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female...
Excess weight linked to 8 more cancer types
excess weight to higher risks of cancers of the colon, oesophagus, kidney, breast and uterus [3]. "Lifestyle factors such as...
New research confirms obesity link to 11 cancers
multiple myeloma, cancers of the gastric cardia, colon, rectum, biliary tract system, pancreas, breast, endometrium, ovary, and...
Lifestyle choices condition colon and rectal cancer risk more than genetics
choices condition colon and rectal cancer risk more than... have issued the first predictive risk model of colon and rectal cancer based on Spanish data that combines genetic and lifestyle... of improving lifestyle to reduce the risk of colon cancer and suggests to use a combination of lifestyle and genetic information...
Where body fat is carried can predict cancer risk
pancreatic, womb, ovary, and kidney. Colon cancer, oesophageal cancer, kidney cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer [2],...
Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers, say experts
cost effective if combined with a pre-scheduled colonoscopy for CRC. There is currently no screening provision for gastric cancer in...
CancerSEEK: Generalised screening for multiple cancer types
screening tests for single cancer types (e.g., colonoscopy for colon cancer). Reference Cohen JD, Li L et al. Detection...
Colorectal cancer: Combined analysis enhances risk prediction
the conversation is about colon cancer screening, physicians often ask their patients about cancer cases among...
Evidence mounts of link between severe gum disease and various cancers
oral cancers, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic...
The IARC perspective on colorectal cancer screening
endoscopy 4 Computed tomographic (CT) colonography 4.1 Beneficial effects of CT colonography 4.2 Benefit–harm r... cancer screening, endoscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBT), faecal...
Links between red meat and distal colon cancer
between red meat and distal colon... meat significantly reduces the risk of a type of colon cancer in women living in the United... or vegetarian diets are associated with risk of colon and rectal cancer. When comparing the effects of these diets to cancer... fish, vegetarian, colorectal cancer, distal colon cancer, cohort...
Eating foods with low nutritional quality ratings linked to cancer risk in large European cohort
breast, n = 12,063; prostate, n = 6,745; colon-rectum, n = 5,806). The researchers assigned each participant's diet a...
European colorectal cancer rates in young adults increasing by 6% per year
CRC across Europe over the last 25 years. For colon cancer, incidence rates increased by 1.5% per year between 1990–2008...
Obesity linked to increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer
since 1980, largely owing to recommended colonoscopy screening starting at age 50. For reasons that remain unknown, new cases...
Colon cancer growth reduced by exercise
Colon cancer growth reduced by... may play a role in reducing the growth of colon cancer cells according to new research published in The Journal of Physiology... and were then analysed to study the growth of colon cancer cells. Importantly the method used to model the colon cancer cells in... colon cancer, colorectal cancer, high intensity interval training (HIIT), physically...
Global microbial signatures for colorectal cancer
association studies aim to map how the microbes colonizing the gut of colorectal cancer patients are different from those that... for example by preventing certain species from colonising our gut. But that’s very difficult!” Researchers led by Peer Bork rec...
A gut feeling: microbiome changes may mean early detection of colorectal cancer
from a little over 600 patients who underwent colonoscopy to assess the characteristics of their gut microbiota and how they...