Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Colon cancer incidence and mortality rates are higher in blacks compared with whites, and new research shows that differences in health insurance coverage and tumor characteristics are largely responsible for these racial disparities in colon cancer survival.

New, persistent opioid use is a common health-care related complication among patients with cancer who underwent curative surgery, study data showed.

One-fifth of patients with cancer experienced PTSD within several months of diagnosis, according to results of a prospective study published in Cancer.

Nita Ahuja, MD, has been named chair of the department of surgery at Yale School of Medicine.

ASCO announced four cohorts of Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry, or TAPUR, will enroll additional patients with a variety of cancers.

The Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health launched a new liver tumor program, designed to provide multidisciplinary care for patients with primary and secondary liver and bile duct cancers, according to a press release.

WASHINGTON — When diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 33 years, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, was told he had a 90% chance of survival.

World Pancreatic Cancer Day will be observed today.

Researchers observed that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease was associated with hepatocellular carcinoma in general and with colorectal cancer in men and breast cancer in women, according to recently published data.

NEW YORK —A significant amount of development in colorectal carcinoma treatment has occurred in recent years, but the 5-year OS rates are still low, according to a presenter at Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.