Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Cologuard’s multitarget stool DNA test was found to provide accurate colorectal neoplasia screening for Alaska Native people, who have one of the world’s highest rates of colorectal cancer and limited access to traditional screening methods.

Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the department of radiation oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Advances in immunotherapy have dramatically expanded the treatment armamentarium for both solid tumors and hematologic malignancies.

I have had the privilege of taking care of many young adult patients with lymphomas.

Kenneth R. DeVault, MD, FACG, has been elected as the 2015-2016 president of the American College of Gastroenterology, a national specialty association representing more than 13,000 clinical gastroenterologists and other specialists in digestive diseases.

Cancer survivorship care has always been and continues to be an extension of good cancer care.

Photodynamic therapy is a targeted cancer therapy that administers a nontoxic drug that settles in tumor cells and is followed by the application of laser light to the tumor.

In a recently released editorial, experts speculated on whether the results of a Japanese study could have implications for circulating tumor DNA serving as a biomarker and guiding care of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

HONOLULU — Chronic constipation was found to be associated with gastrointestinal complications among younger patients in a retrospective study presented at ACG 2015.

Manuel Hidalgo, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Leon V. & Marilyn L. Rosenberg Clinical Cancer Center and chief of the division of hematology-oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.