Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Inherited genetic mutations may increase the risk for pancreatic cancer in patients with specific pancreatic lesions, according to data published in Gastroenterology.

Biomarkers produced after high-intensity interval training could reduce progression of colorectal cancer cells, according to study results published in the Journal of Physiology.

Almost 70% of patients aged younger than 50 years had to see at least two doctors before being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, according to results of a survey scheduled for presentation at American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

Use of low-value procedures was associated with more hospital-acquired complications, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy proved to be as safe as or safer than other oncologic procedures with similar risks, according to results of a retrospective study published in JAMA Network Open.

Cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy proved to be as safe as or safer than other oncologic procedures with similar risks, according to results of a retrospective study published in JAMA Network Open.

Veena Shankaran , MD, has been named co-director of Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, a health care economics and policy group based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

A randomized phase 3 trial designed to evaluate olaparib as first-line maintenance therapy for patients with germline BRCA-mutated metastatic prostate cancer met its primary endpoint of PFS.

Patients who undergo curative surgery for colorectal cancer remain at relatively high risk for cancer although the quality of surveillance colonoscopies remain high, according to results of a retrospective cohort.

Annual home fecal immunochemical tests demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for identifying colorectal cancer, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.