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Colorectal cancer: epidemiology and screening results
[2]. Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among...
Colorectal cancer: introduction
arrangements for all necessary examinations. Incidence of colorectal cancer in the Czech Republic Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among...
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Atanasov T, Májek O, Mužík J. Colorectal cancer incidence, mortality, and stage distribution in European countries in the colorectal...
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Cancer prevention
of cancer is aimed at the reduction in incidence rate of malignant tumours. This consists in the reduction or even elimination...
Leading colorectal cancer patient organisation calls on EU countries to improve poor standards of care
ageing population. It is estimated that the incidence of colorectal cancer will increase by more than 22% by 2015 if action is not...
Global bowel cancer rates on the rise
incidence of bowel cancer is increasing in many countries around the world, according to... to 2002 [1]. They found that bowel cancer incidence rates statistically significantly increased for both men and women in 27 of... cancer, incidence...
Cancer deaths fall, but prevention still lags behind
cancer is decreasing in the European Union, its incidence increased by almost 20%, from 2.1 million new cases in 2002 to 2.5 million in... economic crisis threatens to affect cancer incidence in a number of areas, says a paper by Dr. José M. Martin-Moreno from the ... prevention, cancer incidence and mortality, colon...
Type 2 diabetes and insulin use are associated with colorectal cancer in men
of type 2 diabetes with colorectal cancer incidence among men, our results also suggest that insulin use is associated with a...
World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers
has a strong role to play in reducing the incidence of certain cancers," says Dr Ala Alwan, WHO's Assistant Director-General for...
Aspirin 'should be recommended' to cut bowel cancer risk in people with inherited syndrome
trial to look at aspirin's effect on cancer incidence, and according to the authors, the case for using aspirin to prevent cancer in...
Poor men more likely to die from bowel cancer
Cancer registry, researchers analysed the incidence rate and death rate for five different socio-economic sections of society from...
Launch of the Global Colon Cancer Alliance (GCCA)
(CCA), EuropaColon, colon cancer, global incidence and mortality...
Noninvasive stool test for colorectal cancer unaffected by medications, lifestyle factors and other variables
impact on reducing both the mortality and incidence of colorectal cancer,” Ahlquist said. The researchers examined common p...
Colorectal cancer gene database helpful in furthering research
with age, and as life expectancy rises, the incidence continues to grow. These factors paired with rising health care costs have...
Increased use of colonoscopy screening could explain decrease in colorectal cancer rates
explain a significant decrease in the cancer's incidence over the past decade, according to a new study from researchers at the... and found that a drop in colorectal cancer incidence correlated with Medicare's extension of colonoscopy coverage in...
1.5 million premature cancer deaths could be prevented per year if targets set to reduce NCDs are met by 2025
C, Parkin, D. M.: GLOBOCAN 2008 v1.2, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC CancerBase No. 10 [online]. International Agency...
Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future
the first time would probably lead to a higher incidence of advanced cancers at the beginning (the so-called “harvesting effect”). Sen...
IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'
on the latest statistics on trends in cancer incidence and mortality worldwide, this new book reveals how the cancer burden is...
Colorectal cancer screening works; ‘irrefutable’ evidence that fall in death rates is attributable to screening programmes
are signs that CRC screening can reduce the incidence of this cancer as well as mortality from it, in exactly the same way as is...
Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC
cancer, once rare in Japan, increased 4-fold in incidence in just two decades. These observations are characteristic of many common...
The Czech Republic ranks among developed countries in cancer prevention
cancer screening programmes has been launched, incidence trends of most cancer types – including the most common ones – have sta... might soon be high enough to affect both incidence and mortality of this disease on the national level. The question how to...
MD Anderson study finds one-third of colorectal cancers diagnosed before age 35 are hereditary
defined as a diagnosis before age 50, the incidence of hereditary CRC tends to be higher. However, the prevalence in adolescents...
World Cancer Day: highlighting physical activity in the global fight against cancer
2012 (IARC), Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence Worldwide, Lyon, France, International Agency for...
Preventing colorectal cancer: New report updates dietary and activity recommendations
research on diet, exercise and cancer incidence for 17 different cancer types plus breast cancer survivors. This evidence is...
Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers, say experts
cancer killers, 23.4% of European cancer incidence and 30.1% of European cancer deaths. Currently, of the 5 primary digestive...
The IARC perspective on colorectal cancer screening
almost 10% of the annual global cancer incidence. Yet the disease is preventable with a healthy lifestyle and efficient... with no screening. Regarding reduction in incidence of colorectal cancer, the evidence for gFOBT with rehydration (higher...
Cancer incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6 women
incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6... one in 11 women will die from cancer. Cancer incidence and mortality are rapidly growing worldwide, the report notes. "The... incidence, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), GLOBOCAN 2018, lung...
European colorectal cancer rates in young adults increasing by 6% per year
cancer (CRC) incidence rates across Europe in adults aged 20 to 39 years increased by 6% every year... (see Note) was used to analyse trends in incidence rates of young adults with CRC across Europe over the last 25 years. For colon... cancer, incidence, young...