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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 as...
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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 cancer,...
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 consumption...
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 cancer...
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 most fatal...
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 body... may also be beneficial for those diagnosed with colon cancer later in life. It looks like abdominal obesity may be a useful indicator of...
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 post-surgical... a study of patients with stage III colon cancer - characterised as cancer in the large bowel area with some cancer cells in a...
World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers
activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancer... risk of developing a NCD, including breast and colon cancers, by undertaking various amounts and intensities of physical activity. Almost...
Exercise cuts risk of polyps that can develop into colon cancer
cuts risk of polyps that can develop into colon cancer... 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, decreased...
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 dropped...
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 thousand. People...
Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer
study looked at a total of around 12,000 colon cancer cases and more than 6,000 cases of rectal cancer. Researchers said that the...
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 Cancers... world,” said Andrew Spiegel, CEO of the Colon Cancer Alliance and co-founder and co-chair of GCCA. “We have made huge strides... Colon Cancer Alliance (GCCA), Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA), EuropaColon, colon cancer,...
Colonoscopy prevents deaths from colon cancer
prevents deaths from colon cancer... colon cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality rates, adenomatous...
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 other...
Increased use of colonoscopy screening could explain decrease in colorectal cancer rates
may actually be having an impact in the risk of colon cancer at the level of the general population," said Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS,...
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 treatment...
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 Research... fat in mice genetically prone to developing colon cancer might prevent or lessen the development of these tumors. They randomly... 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 disease. “In this s...
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, according to... during the last 50 years, the number of new colon cancer cases per year has exploded for both men and women,” said Inger Torhild... smoking, colon cancer...
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, Ph.D.,... 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 likely to... were more likely to want to get screened for colon cancer, but those who felt uncomfortable were 12 percent less likely to attend...
Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers
activity, colon cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, cancer prevention, cancer...
Lifestyle choices condition colon and rectal cancer risk more than genetics
of improving lifestyle to reduce the risk of colon cancer and suggests to use a combination of lifestyle and genetic information to...
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], stomach...
CancerSEEK: Generalised screening for multiple cancer types
for single cancer types (e.g., colonoscopy for colon cancer). Reference Cohen JD, Li L et al. Detection and localization of...
Colorectal cancer: Combined analysis enhances risk prediction
the conversation is about colon cancer screening, physicians often ask their patients about cancer cases among close...
Evidence mounts of link between severe gum disease and various cancers
oral cancers, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic...
Links between red meat and distal colon cancer
between red meat and distal colon cancer... meat significantly reduces the risk of a type of colon cancer in women living in the United... a red meat-free diet had higher rates of distal colon cancer – cancer found on the descending section of the colon, where faeces is... fish, vegetarian, colorectal cancer, distal colon cancer, cohort...
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 and, more...
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 [1].... and were then analysed to study the growth of colon cancer cells. Importantly the method used to model the colon cancer cells in the... colon cancer, colorectal cancer, high intensity interval training (HIIT), physically active...