Gastrointestinal Cancer News

The number of liver transplantations due to hepatitis C-related decompensated cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma declined rapidly over the last 3 years while posttransplant survival has improved, according to data from the European Liver Transplant Registry .

Flight attendants showed elevated incidence of several types of cancer compared with the general population, according to findings published in Environmental Health.

This year’s ASCO Annual Meeting featured potentially practice-changing studies, including many that evaluated investigational immunotherapy agents and assessed new methods for cancer detection and prevention.

CHICAGO — Sophia Randolph, MD, PhD, chief medical officer at Alexo Therapeutics, spoke with HemOnc Today at ASCO Annual Meeting about ALX148.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Colorectal Cancer Moon Shot team is making significant strides in its effort to increase early detection, advance treatment and improve patient outcomes.

WASHINGTON — Patients who wait longer to undergo colonoscopy screening after a positive fecal immunochemical test are at higher risk for developing colorectal cancer, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week.

A diet with a high insulin load increased risk for colon can recurrence and mortality, according to results of a prospective, observational study.

Children with standard-risk hepatoblastoma who received sodium thiosulfate 6 hours after cisplatin chemotherapy had a 48% lower incidence of cisplatin-induced hearing loss, according to phase 3 results from the SIOPEL 6 clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

WASHINGTON — A machine learning model successfully identified all polyps in colonoscopies previously reviewed by expert colonoscopists and even found a few more, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week.

Researchers determined racial and ethnic differences that correlated with early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma and receipt of curative treatment, which could be used as intervention targets to improve patient outcomes.