Gastrointestinal Cancer News

The use of photodynamic therapy with stents was safe and increased survival among patients with unresectable extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma vs. stents alone, per results from a retrospective study presented at UEG Week 2016.

LAS VEGAS — Black patients presented with more advanced hepatocellular carcinoma compared with non-Hispanic white patients at Alameda Health System, Highland Hospital — a safety-net hospital — in Oakland, Calif., per data presented at ACG 2016.

Charles S. Fuchs, MD, has been named director and physician in chief at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven.

Noninvasive fecal immunochemical testing is an effective alternative to colonoscopy and stool blood-based screening methods for colorectal cancer screening, according to an opinion article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Cigarette smoking led to a significant number of cancer deaths throughout the United States, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A 2006 Massachusetts health care reform that served as a model for the Affordable Care Act increased rates of resection and decreased probability of emergent resection for patients with colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The European Society for Medical Oncology Congress featured three presidential symposia and 47 late-breaking abstracts within this year’s theme of “From Disease Treatment to Patient Care.”

Patients who underwent hepatectomy via minimally invasive surgery were less likely to experience serious morbidities or mortality compared with patients who underwent hepatectomy via open surgery, according to data presented at the 2016 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Patients with stage II or stage III rectal cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy alone had worse OS outcomes than surgically treated patients, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology.

LAS VEGAS — Novel methylation DNA markers accurately identified advanced neoplasia in patients with pancreatic cysts, according to findings presented at ACG 2016.