Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Individuals with cancer reported significantly reduced pain immediately following a 10-minute virtual reality (VR) session, study results published in Cancer showed.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumors who received previous systemic therapy and lack additional treatment options.

Fewer than one-third of recently approved molecular-targeted cancer therapies demonstrated “substantial patient benefits,” according to data published in JAMA Oncology.

New global cancer diagnoses could reach 35 million by the year 2050, according to a report from the American Cancer Society published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Aparna Parikh, MD, about cancer and GI malignancies in the global health space, circulating tumor DNA in the field of oncology and more.

A quality performance measure that tracks follow-up colonoscopy rates within 6 months of an abnormal stool-based screening test was feasible and had a median reliability of 94.5% across health care organizations, according to researchers.

A multivariable risk prediction model “may be useful” for prioritizing patients at highest risk for colorectal cancer and awaiting surveillance colonoscopy when demand for the procedure is high, according to research in Gastro Hep Advances.

Coffee consumption may reduce risk for colorectal cancer recurrence and all-cause mortality, according to research published in the International Journal of Cancer.

Incidence rates of distant and regional stage colorectal adenocarcinoma have increased over the past two decades among those aged 46 to 49 years and should be considered when counseling patients on screening initiation, research showed.

Colonoscopy screening reduced the incidence of colorectal cancer and related mortality by 30% and 32%, respectively, compared with usual care, although the benefit was less than that of sigmoidoscopy where no screening exists, data showed.