Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Patients with gastrointestinal cancers face ongoing racial/ethnicity-based disparities in end-of-life pain management, specifically in terms of access to and utilization of opioids, study results showed.

Adults with type 2 diabetes who use GLP-1 receptor agonists do not have an increased short-term risk for pancreatic cancer, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists significantly lowered the risk for colorectal cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes compared with other diabetes medications, according to a research letter in JAMA Oncology.

Facility fees for three common colonoscopy procedures were approximately 55% higher at hospitals compared with ambulatory surgery centers in the same county and with the same insurer, researchers reported in JAMA Health Forum.

Substance use disorders are more prevalent among survivors of certain types of cancer, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, awarded $45 million to fast track the development of a “closed loop” implant for continuous monitoring of patients with cancer undergoing treatment with immunotherapy.

Results of a phase 1 trial for a vaccine targeting micrometastatic disease markers in patients already treated for pancreatic or colorectal cancer showed potential in preventing recurrence, according to a study in Nature Medicine.

Colorectal cancer incidence has increased since 1988 among men but not women younger than 50 years, suggesting that patient sex should be factored in when determining screening age, data from an Austrian study showed.

Homeless veterans with lung or colorectal cancers had higher mortality rates than housed veterans, study data published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Adding sintilimab to chemotherapy improved survival compared with placebo among patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, phase 3 study results published in JAMA showed.