Gastrointestinal Cancer News

World Cancer Day — which will be observed today — was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control to raise awareness of cancer, and to emphasize the importance of prevention, detection and treatment.

A $1.5 million federal grant will help researchers from University of Arizona and other institutions conduct a long-term study of cancer in firefighters.

While patients with disabilities were more likely to receive some form of cancer screening vs. patients without disabilities, disparities in the receipt of cancer screening varied by disability type and limitations, according to results published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

Risks for hepatocellular carcinoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma appeared greater among women who had undergone a blood transfusion more than 5 years earlier, according to results of a prospective study conducted in the United Kingdom.

The risk for hepatocellular carcinoma was low among patients with cirrhosis, with a 10-year incidence of 4% or lower, according to the results of a U.K. population-based cohort study.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in the small intestine were associated with better survival compared with stomach tumors in adolescents and young adults aged younger than 40 years, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

“Robust” federal funding is needed to build on recent advances in cancer research, ASCO’s senior vice president and chief medical officer, Richard L. Schilsky, MD, FASCO, said during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

For the second year in a row, ASCO has named immunotherapy as its cancer advance of the year, according to “Clinical Cancer Advances 2017: ASCO’s Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer.”

Breath volatile organic compound analysis showed promise for detecting esophageal and gastric cancer in a multicenter validation study, according to a late-breaking abstract presented at the European Cancer Congress.

Denis Guttridge, PhD, has been appointed associate director for basic research at The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center.