Oncology News

For the entirety of March, the gastroenterology community has celebrated National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month to encourage individuals to learn more about the highly preventable cancer and to increase screening.

Prenatal exposure in the 1960s and ’70s to dicyclomine, a component of the anti-nausea drug Bendectin, increased the risk for colorectal cancer in adult offspring, according to data reported in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

Machine learning algorithms can help predict positive resection margin and lymph node metastases among patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, according to study results.

Survival for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer has improved steadily since 2012, according to retrospective study results.

Colorectal cancer screenings more than doubled for adults aged 45 to 49 years after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force lowered the recommended age to start screening, a study by Epic Research found.

Electroacupuncture increased weekly spontaneous bowel movements and improved quality of life in patients with cancer and opioid-induced constipation, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

In a Healio video exclusive, Ugo Iroku, MD, previewed the Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists’ upcoming event on early-onset colorectal cancer and the disparities in screening and care that Black patients face.

Defensive strategies, such as denying immediacy of testing or exempting oneself, are key barriers to at-home colorectal cancer screening, according to study results published in Cancer.

Foreign-born individuals who recently immigrated to the United States had lower adherence to colorectal cancer screening than foreign-born individuals who have lived in the U.S. longer and those born in the country, data show.

Hospitals that performed at least 25 major hepatectomies per year had lower rates of postoperative in-hospital mortality and failure to rescue, suggesting better management of postoperative complications.